Guitarist Quotes

• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Conscious
  • Tried
  • Rock Star

• 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
  • Different
  • Way
  • Style

• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Value
  • Passages
  • melodic

• Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Exciting
  • Guitarist
  • Jimi Hendrix

• 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
  • Second
  • Onstage
  • Guitarist

• 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
  • Players
  • Notes
  • melodic

• The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Guitarist
  • Taylor
  • Coleman

• I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Crush
  • Guitarist
  • Guitars

• I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Richie Blackmore
  • Jimmy Paige
  • John Mayer

• 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
  • Balanced
  • Guitarist
  • Writing Songs

• 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
  • Kingdom
  • Knock
  • Led Zeppelin

• 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
  • Fashion
  • Path
  • Model

• 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
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Guitarist

• I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Writing
  • Guitar
  • Crap

• I was raised by my father, who was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bass player. His brothers all did the same thing, so I was kind of always raised around the music.

  

  William Singe
  • Father
  • Always
  • Same

• 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
  • Time
  • Great
  • Birthday

• There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

  

  George Benson
  • Music
  • Guitarist
  • Kenny

• Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Funny
  • Inspiring
  • Substance

• I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Guitarist
  • Amateur

• 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
  • Soul
  • Purpose
  • Balance

• I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

  

  Karen Black
  • Player
  • Jazz
  • Guitarist

• I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.

  

  Jake Pitts Black Veil Brides
  • Play
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • I Feel
  • Count
  • Guitarist

• Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the band follows their vision. This is cool, and as you know I have been part of a few amazing bands that did this and I am not complaining.

  

  Marco Mendoza Black Star Riders
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Vision

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