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As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is… — Mark Knopfler
A good player can make any guitar sound good. — Mike Bloomfield
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time… — Stephen Malkmus
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. — Rick Springfield
...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard &… — Brad Paisley
Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to… — Junior Brown
While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's path .. it… — Unknown Author
... I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo… — Steve Morse
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so… — Charlie Byrd
I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He… — Wes Montgomery
...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared… — Roger McGuinn
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive — Les Paul
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he… — Roger McGuinn
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything. — Joe Pass
When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to ! — Richard Betts
... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one ..… — Ritchie Blackmore
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive — Les Paul
In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and… — Ry Cooder
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up — Billy Gibbons
I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the… — Stevie Ray Vaughan
A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first… — Mark Knopfler
The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then… — Yngwie Malmsteen
Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker… — Junior Brown
Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just… — Eddie Van Halen
Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django… — Charlie Byrd

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