Guitar Player Quotes - Page 5

• Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.

  Dave Mustaine

  Couple, Gun, Player

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• 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.

  Billy Bragg

  Believe, Opportunity, Player

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

  Roy Choi

  Player, Guitar, Pussy

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

  Johnny Winter

  Player, Guitar, Gamer

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• So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others

  Lee Ann Womack

  Player, Guitar, Trying

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• 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.

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• 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.

  Joe Perry

  Country, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Zach Condon

  Dad, Player, Guitar

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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

  Ronnie Wood

  Sleep, Good Friend, Player

  "Musicians, actors and celebrities react to news of Prince's death", www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• 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.

  Doug Martsch

  Nice, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  B. B. King

  Beautiful, Mother, Player

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Simple, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.

  Cody Johnson

  Player, Guitar, Lines

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• My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.

  Jill Sobule

  Brother, School, Player

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!

  Kelly Hogan

  Player, Guitar, Color

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Gail Zappa

  Commitment, Player, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Chasing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Half

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Female

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• 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.

  Mirel Wagner

  Strong Women, Powerful, Player

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  David Bromberg

  Player, Guitar, Listening

  Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. June 4, 2008.

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

  Marnie Stern

  Mean, Player, Guitar

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

  Jonny Lang

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

  Alice Cooper

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

  John Petrucci

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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