Guitarist Quotes
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Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgrens soloing, because hes so melodic. I love John Lennons rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
Sam Palladio
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
Pat Metheny
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I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.
Joanne Rowling
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I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
Bananarama
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That was the thing about Joy Division: writing the songs was dead easy because the group was really balanced; we had a great guitarist, a great drummer, a great bass player, a great singer.
Peter Hook
New Order
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But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'
Angus McKinnon Young
AC/DC
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I'm very bad at being an actor or guitarist. The sign on my gravestone would be, 'I've been getting away with it all my life.'
Francis Rossi
Status Quo
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There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
George Benson
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I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
Karen Black
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I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
Rain Phoenix
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I've always felt that I inherited an old soul, and I've tried to live my life with equality and balance. I do not, nor have I ever, considered myself anything any more or any less than a musician, and I cringe at the term 'rock star'. I suppose I'd like to be known as more than a hard rock guitarist. That was my purpose and ambition twenty years ago and there's been a lot of growth since.
Vivian Campbell
Def Leppard
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Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen
Alcatrazz
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I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
Robin Trower
Procol Harum
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He's one of the all-time great guitarists, and worked wonders making guitars, and here he is still around, still playing and having this great award on his birthday.
Hal David
