Quotes about Guitar Player

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. Votes: 6

I'm not a good guitar player. Votes: 4

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do. Votes: 4

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. Votes: 4

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. Votes: 4

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal. Votes: 4

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like. Votes: 4

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

... 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 ... Votes: 3

Guitar players never listen to lead singers. Votes: 2

I just want to be a better guitar player, really. Votes: 2

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up Votes: 2

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion. Votes: 2

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. Votes: 2

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. Votes: 2

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. Votes: 2

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. Votes: 2

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. Votes: 2

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer. Votes: 2

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period. Votes: 2

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. Votes: 2

One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. Votes: 2

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player. Votes: 2

When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do. Votes: 2

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player. Votes: 2

There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about blues. There were a lot of powerful blues guitar players in the olden times that were women. It's just that when you think about blues, you have this one image in your mind. Votes: 2

I'm a struggling guitar player. Votes: 0

I was a guitar player first off. Votes: 0

I'll never be the best guitar player. Votes: 0

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. Votes: 0

A good player can make any guitar sound good. Votes: 0

Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!! Votes: 0

Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player! Votes: 0

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se. Votes: 0

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived. Votes: 0

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player. Votes: 0

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around. Votes: 0

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player. Votes: 0

I bet a chef could get more pussy than a guitar player right now. Votes: 0

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. Votes: 0

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. Votes: 0

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world. Votes: 0

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. Votes: 0

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did. Votes: 0

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar. Votes: 0

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing. Votes: 0

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums. Votes: 0

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. Votes: 0

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player. Votes: 0

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that. Votes: 0

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. Votes: 0

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. Votes: 0

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from. Votes: 0

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up Votes: 0

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction. Votes: 0

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince. Votes: 0

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died. Votes: 0

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. Votes: 0

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player. Votes: 0

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums. Votes: 0

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar. Votes: 0

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. Votes: 0

... 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... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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 ... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that. Votes: 0

Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0