Top 1200 Guitar Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.

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

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

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

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

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'

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

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

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

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.

I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

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

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.

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand volley at tennis.

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

I was doing someones hair the day I first saw my guitar ... a guy was walking down the street with it, and knew that guitar was mine (a 1953 weathered Fender Telecaster) .. I said I'll get you the most beautiful guitar you've ever seen and I'll trade you straight across ... I found him a purple Telecaster and said here's your guitar ... that was it, it was like he knew that guitar belonged to me.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.

Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.

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.

I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

I was always good at video games like 'Guitar Hero,' which require the player to press buttons at precise times.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Guitar Player' was always the serious musician's magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.

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

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.

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

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

Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and know that your feelings aren't controlled by the controls of your guitar.

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.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

My first musical dream was to be a guitar player, and believe me, it's still in there.

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

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

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.

My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.

I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.

I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week, my parents bought me a real acoustic guitar, and I started taking guitar lessons.

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.

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

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

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.

I think I'm a songwriter. 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.

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

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.