All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing. — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise… — Paul Simon 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
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
I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to… — Jake Pitts 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
Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
The reality is each new day and each project is another opportunity to learn, experiment and try something I haven't done before.… — Jason Graves Copy Share Image
When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia (former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on drugs. And yet hes being honored,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana! — Miyavi Copy Share Image
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the… — Rex Smith Copy Share Image
I used to be totally into Steve Vai and Joe Satriani and other shredders, and I tried to emulate what they did… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing… — Izzy Stradlin Copy Share Image
“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.” — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
