Guitarist Quotes · Page 7

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

For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin.…

— Nikki Sixx

Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad…

— Dallas Clayton

Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the…

— Marco Mendoza

It's weird - I can listen to a guitar player or a rock record over and over again and really enjoy whatever…

— Kevin Drumm

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It…

— Peter Tork

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places…

— B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that.…

— B. B. King

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

I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were…

— Darren Robinson

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

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo,…

— John Frusciante

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

“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

With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene…

— Bill Milkowski

The song tells me what to play.

— Joe Walsh

Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

— Scott Henderson

I'm a good rhythm guitarist and that's it.

— Everlast

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

— Jonny Greenwood

Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.

— Dimebag Darrell

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into…

— Jimmy Page

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

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

— King Krule

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

— Karen Black

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers'…

— Joe Perry

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge…

— Andres Segovia

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

— Kiefer Sutherland

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

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm…

— Josh Hartnett

I used to be totally into Steve Vai and Joe Satriani and other shredders, and I tried to emulate what they did…

— Jeff Hanneman

I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person…

— Jimmy Page

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

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very…

— Marc Ribot

Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy…

— Alex Lifeson