Guitar player Quotes · Page 4

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

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

— Dan Auerbach

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

— Keith Richards

Well, honestly, Derek - to me, there is no other guitar player out there like him.

— Susan Tedeschi

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

— Nuno Bettencourt

Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.

— Adam Granduciel

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

— Billy Corgan

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

— Rick Nielsen

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in…

— Hal Sparks

I've only ever been in bands where I can be the punk rock guitar player in the band because that's all I…

— Pat Smear

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult…

— Boz Scaggs

Without so much as taking another step towards the field, I turned around, went back into the gym, and I told my…

— Joe Satriani

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it…

— James Iha

It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray…

— Lemmy Kilmister

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a…

— Kirk Hammett

When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the…

— Gary Hoey

I like streaming music. I'll be in the car going, 'I want to hear Scotty Anderson.' He's a great guitar player not…

— John 5

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I…

— James Iha

Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question.…

— Joe Satriani

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested…

— Todd Rundgren

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind…

— Ritchie Blackmore

There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There…

— Merrell Fankhauser

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny…

— Vonda Shepard

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young…

— Jesse Harris

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.

— Steve Lukather

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

— Phil Lesh

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

— Charley Pride

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

— Little Richard

The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players

— Walter Trout

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

— Zakk Wylde

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

— Orianthi

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan

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

— Marnie Stern

Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.

— Paul Gilbert

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

— Sammy Hagar

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

— Rufus Wainwright

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

— Laurent Brancowitz

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

— Brad Paisley

I was an engineer for a long time. I was a sideman guitar player.

— J. J. Cale

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

— J. J. Cale