Guitar Player Quotes
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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
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.
— Joe Pass
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
I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
— Rick Nielsen
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
— Zach Condon
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
— Little Richard
I'm not a good guitar player.
— Adam Jones
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
— Stevie Jackson
Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.
— Richard Hawley
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
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
— Billy Bragg
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.
— Rory Gallagher
At the end of the European leg, our lead guitar player pulled a knife on our bus driver in England. I
— Duff McKagan
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
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
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
— Phil Lesh
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
I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
— Mick Jones
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
Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.
— Robin Trower
My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
— Brian May
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
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
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
— John Mayer
Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!!
— Walter Trout
There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.
— Joe Perry
I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.
— Gary Cherone
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
— Chrissie Hynde
Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
— John Frusciante
You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up
— Keith Richards
I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
— David Crosby
When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !
— Richard Betts
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.
— Joe Satriani
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
I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.
— Laurent Brancowitz
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
— Steve Vai
In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.
— Glenn Tipton
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
— Gavin DeGraw
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
— George Benson
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
— Adam Jones
A good player can make any guitar sound good.
— Mike Bloomfield
There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.
— Marnie Stern
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.
— Brian Setzer
I'll never be the best guitar player.
— Chad Kroeger
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.
— Sam Endicott
I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.
— Ronnie Wood
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
— George Thorogood
It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
— Ryan Adams
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
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
— Billy Gibbons
I was a guitar player first off.
— Boz Scaggs
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
The Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players
— Jimi Hendrix
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
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
— Billy Corgan
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
Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
— George Harrison
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
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
— Rufus Wainwright
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
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
— Dick Dale
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
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
I'm a struggling guitar player.
— Megyn Kelly
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
— Billy Corgan
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
— Brad Paisley
I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.
— Steve Vai
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
— Tina Weymouth
Without you, I'm just a guitar player.
— Bella Jeanisse
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
I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.
— Annie E. Clark
Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!
— Dave Liebman