Top 100 Quotes About Guitar Player
#1. I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.
Brad Paisley
#2. I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.
Alison Mosshart
#3. I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.
Wes Borland
#4. The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think ... ahh, I've heard that lick before.
Tom Verlaine
#5. I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
Colin Hay
#6. Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
Dick Dale
#7. When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard ...
Bob Dylan
#8. Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
Billy Gibbons
#9. I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.
Rick Derringer
#10. I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.
Duncan Sheik
#11. Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.
Robin Trower
#12. I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.
Ric Ocasek
#13. My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
Billy Corgan
#14. I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Adam Jones
#15. All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.
James Vincent McMorrow
#16. It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!
Kelly Hogan
#17. I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.
Randy Bachman
#18. I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#19. As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
Boz Scaggs
#20. Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.
Richard Hawley
#21. To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.
Jessica Hische
#22. I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.
Jonny Lang
#23. Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.
Jesse Harris
#24. I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.
Loren Mazzacane Connors
#25. Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
John Frusciante
#26. My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.
Bootsy Collins
#27. Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.
Steve Vai
#28. I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.
Paul Banks
#29. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.
Les Paul
#30. I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.
John Mayer
#31. Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
Ted Nugent
#32. Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.
Alice Cooper
#33. There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.
Scott Stapp
#34. I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.
Ronnie Wood
#35. I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.
Annie E. Clark
#36. Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.
Henry Rollins
#37. As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
Brad Paisley
#38. Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.
Zakk Wylde
#39. Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.
James Cotton
#40. I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.
Robbie Robertson
#41. I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her."
"Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.
Amanda Hocking
#42. I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.
Ray Stevens
#43. I am, by nature, a guitar player ... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.
Hunter Hayes
#44. The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
Keith Richards
#45. Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.
J.J. Cale
#46. I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
Billy Corgan
#47. When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !
Richard Betts
#48. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
George Harrison
#49. Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!!
Walter Trout
#50. I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
P.J. Harvey
#51. At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It's like being a male ballerina in a way. It's not the norm.
Orianthi
#52. I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
Dan Auerbach
#53. By far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.
Jeff Beck
#54. The thing about guitar players is we're all like a brotherhood or sisterhood. We don't care if you're great, good, bad, in between or whatever. As long as you love it, then we're all going to help each other.
Tommy Emmanuel
#55. I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.
Todd Rundgren
#56. and I learned more at the hands of Carl Wilson than I learned from anybody else. He taught me a fuck of a lot of guitar playing. That man is a good guitar player.
Holly George-Warren
#57. I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE.
David Bromberg
#58. Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.'
Dick Dale
#59. There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
Shannon Hoon
#60. Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ...
Joe Satriani
#61. When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.
Kirk Hammett
#62. People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the best, you know? They've all gotten your attention, you've admired them, you've tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of 'em.
Gregg Allman
#63. People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).
Larry Carlton
#64. I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.
Phillip Phillips
#65. To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.
Scott Weiland
#66. A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip ...
Henry Garza
#67. I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.
Brittany Howard
#68. When I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ... then there was a guitar player named Steve Gordon, he was "the player" in town ... I still remember him saying to me 'Is there any reason you're not using your little finger?' ...
Ray Flacke
#69. In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.
Todd Rundgren
#70. But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
Charlie Hunter
#71. The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.
Dana Gould
#72. I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
Rick Nielsen
#73. The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
George Benson
#74. I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
Scott Ian
#75. We Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.
Gene Tierney
#76. The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players
Walter Trout
#77. The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.
Hiromi
#78. I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.
Paul Weller
#80. I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.
Joe Satriani
#81. So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and ... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne
#82. If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
Nuno Bettencourt
#84. I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.
Annie E. Clark
#85. As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it ... it's a humbling experience ...
Mark Knopfler
#86. My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.
Atticus Ross
#87. You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Gavin DeGraw
#88. Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that ...
Sam Andrew
#89. I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.
Daniel Rossen
#90. Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.
Zooey Deschanel
#91. When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.
Meredith Brooks
#92. Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
Flea
#93. My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.
George Benson
#94. We've done every record on our own. Its produced by our guitar player and sometimes we'll have some help mixin' it and have some outside engineers but for the most part, it's done by the band and I think that's the reason why CKY sounds like no other band, 'cause we make our own albums.
Jess Margera
#95. Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.
Dave Mustaine
#96. My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
Jonny Lang
#97. For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.
Doug Martsch
#98. I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.
Avril Lavigne
#99. I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
John Mayer
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