Top 218 Guitarist Quotes & Sayings

I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

Giuseppe Continenza is a monster guitarist

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

Frederico Pena is an amazing talented guitarist and producer.

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.

Richie Kotzen is such an unbelievable talent as a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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.

One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.

I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

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

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

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.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless.

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

I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

I'm so honored that I got the best guitarist award for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards.

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.

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

Rush and guitarist Alex Lifeson are among my biggest influences.

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

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

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

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

Tony McManus is the best Celtic guitarist in the world.

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?