Guitarist Quotes

• 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.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Should, Synthesizers

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• The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

  Jimmy Page

  Music, Rocks, Important

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

  Robert Smith

  Song, Guitar, Drunk

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• I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

  Marc Ribot

  Mean, Guitar, Pieces

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• As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

  John Frusciante

  Funny, Inspiring, Heart

  "The Red Hot Chili Peppers Gods of Sex Funk". Guitar Player Intreview with Joe Gore, October 1991.

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• If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

  Jerry Garcia

  Funny, Inspiring, Assuming

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• A good player can make any guitar sound good.

  Mike Bloomfield

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

  Carlos Santana

  Funny, Inspiring, Guitar

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• The song tells me what to play.

  Joe Walsh

  Funny, Inspiring, Song

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• If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Inspiring, Important

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  I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Mistake, Guitar

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• Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

  Scott Henderson

  Funny, Inspiring

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

  Larry Coryell

  Music, Years

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• If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mistake, Guitar Music, Trying

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

  John Mayer

  Failure, Who I Am, Hendrix

  "100 Greatest Artists. Jimi Hendrix" by John Mayer, December 2, 2010.

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Idols

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church.

  Dave Brubeck

  Spiritual, Player, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

  B. B. King

  Music, Rocks, Play

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• I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Funny, Inspiring, Mean

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• Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head

  Eddie Van Halen

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Inspiring, Guitar

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

  Zakk Wylde

  Guitar, Architect, Sabbath

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• Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

  B. B. King

  Music, Son, Men

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• I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Hate, Grease, Causes

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