Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking,… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is,… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist,… — Sacinandana Swami Copy Share Image
The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way… — Andrew S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry.… — Cub Koda Copy Share Image
I don't like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
“Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on Cory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and his… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I played with a band, and the lead singer would always introduce me as 'the 13-year-old lead guitarist.' I didn't want to… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard… — David Torn Copy Share Image
The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent… — Thomas Sangster Copy Share Image
I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing… — Robert Pollard Copy Share Image
I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
I remember going foraging for breakfast in St. Louis once. I saw this one girl sitting in front of the venue, and… — Guy Garvey Copy Share Image
I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin.… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat… — Bryan Beller Copy Share Image
Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression.… — David First Copy Share Image
I actually knew Sully's sister, and I was in a band called Stripmind, and then I became roommates with Sully and being… — Robbie Merrill Copy Share Image
Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad… — Dallas Clayton Copy Share Image
Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
It's weird - I can listen to a guitar player or a rock record over and over again and really enjoy whatever… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were… — Darren Robinson Copy Share Image
Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo,… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over… — Nick Hexum Copy Share Image
As a guitarist and a lot of the times as a singer, I don't feel that comfortable and you really feel that… — Stephen Kellogg Copy Share Image
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene… — Bill Milkowski Copy Share Image
“I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
![“I remember going foraging for breakfast in St. Louis once. I saw this one girl sitting in front of the venue, and she made this pink T-shirt with a big heart in the middle of it and a misty picture of our guitarist Mark [Potter]. She was so embarrassed when she saw me. And I was trying desperately…” quote by Guy Garvey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a5b/guy-garvey-38208_big-heart_i-remember-going-foraging-for-breakfast_2424017.jpg)
![“For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.” quote by Nikki Sixx](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1cf/nikki-sixx-1436_addiction_for-me-i-never-knew-what-addiction-was-i_460231.jpg)
![“Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar with you everywhere you go. Pretty cool!” quote by Bryan Beller](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bb3/bryan-beller-96271_brain_learning-the-notes-on-the-fretboard-is-k_772805.png)
![“We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over a really slow, heavy thing, And then there's also a really fast one called 'It's Getting OK Now,' which is [guitarist] Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell…” quote by Nick Hexum](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/71b/nick-hexum-57325_channeling_we-ve-got-the-slowest-311-song-ever-call_1783477.jpg)
