Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as…

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate…

— Bruno Mars

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

— Joe Satriani

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

— John Frusciante

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

— David Lee Roth

A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones…

— Kevin Shields

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge…

— Dean Wareham

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in…

— Gary Cherone

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the…

— Robyn Hitchcock

.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff,…

— Brad Paisley

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

— Jimmy Page

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

— Dhani Harrison

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for…

— Lee Ann Womack

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That.…

— Johnny Depp

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a…

— Slash

I don't just sing the song, I also sing the background music and the guitar solo.

— Anonymous