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First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.
— Ron Barber
I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
— Ritchie Blackmore
Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.
— Kirk Hammett
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us
— B.B. King
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.
— Chris Hillman
Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.
— Kenny Burrell
Standing out like a punk guitarist in a mariachi band.
— Brandon Sanderson
[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere ... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist
— Jon Pareles
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
— King Krule
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
— Colin Greenwood
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
— Bonnie Raitt
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
— Vance Joy
I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.
— Rainbow Rowell
I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
— Phoebe Snow
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
— Oscar Isaac
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
— Brad Paisley
I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.
— Vinnie Vincent
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
— Tori Amos
Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.
— Carole King
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.
— Geezer Butler
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
— Pat Metheny
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
— Sam Palladio
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
— John Entwistle
All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.
— Tommy Bolin
There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
— George Benson
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
— Ian McEwan
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
— Ian Anderson
I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
— Robin Trower
I am and always will be a blues guitarist
— Eric Clapton
Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!
— Narada Michael Walden
I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
— Jimi Hendrix
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
— Robert Smith
Naomi Isabelle Knox. Lead guitarist for Amatory Riot. Twenty-three years old. Hot as hell. Mean as sin.
— C.M. Stunich
I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.
— Johnny Depp
I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.
— Bruce Springsteen
Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.
— John Maus
I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.
— Travis Morrison
Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.
— Andy Kindler
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.
— Hope Solo
I really wasn't needed ... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
— Jimmy Page
If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.
— Todd Lowe
I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
— Rain Phoenix
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
— Ritchie Blackmore
If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
— Robin Trower
There are few things truer in life than... you can not play a guitar after doing the dishes and you can't get anywhere in life with a negative mind.
— K. Farrell St. Germain
I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
— Israel Broussard
Tony McManus is the best Celtic guitarist in the world.
— John Renbourn
Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.
— Jimmy Santiago Baca