Guitarist Quotes · Page 3

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

— Howard Roberts

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

— Carlos Santana

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

— Kevin Eubanks

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

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

— Jeff Beck

If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

— Russell Malone

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

— Jason Becker

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

— John Abercrombie

“I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.”

— Rainbow Rowell

'Underrated.' That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a…

— Tom Morello

John Leventhal is such a great guitarist and producer. He can't help but produce a song while he's writing it and he's…

— Susan Tedeschi

You spend 20 years doing something and when you're not doing it, it's hard to figure out what it is you're made…

— Jim Root

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great…

— Lee Ann Womack

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was…

— Tina Weymouth

I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but…

— David Edwards

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays…

— B. B. King

If I played something incorrectly, I whipped myself mercilessly. Whenever I made a mistake, I made sure that I would never allow…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is…

— Robert Smith

Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to…

— Jimmy Page

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But,…

— Kirk Hammett

... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's…

— Ritchie Blackmore

We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the…

— Rex Smith

Of course, I'm a guitar player, so I'm thinking as a guitarist. I have to work within my physical limitations as to…

— Paul Gilbert

I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really…

— Juan Luis Guerra

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

— James Stewart

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

— Mike Portnoy

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

— Frank Gambale

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

— Stark Sands

Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!

— Narada Michael Walden

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

— Kirk Hammett

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

— Jonny Greenwood

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

— Robin Trower

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

— Rick Nielsen

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

— Rick Nielsen

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

— Miyavi

I'm not a great guitarist, and I'm not a great singer.

— Daniel Levitin

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

— Phoebe Snow

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them

— Tommy Shaw

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

— Marnie Stern

The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.

— Bulat Okudzhava