Book Quote by Dick Dale

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into…

— John Fogerty

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so…

— Joe Pass

I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't…

— Johnny Ramone

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things:…

— Greg Iles

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people.…

— James Vincent McMorrow

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

— Dick Dale

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest…

— Joe Satriani

Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely,…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a 'guitar hero' kept me away from all my…

— Joe Satriani

I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people.

— Allan Holdsworth

There's a lot of players I look up to, and I hope that I can be a role model to young female guitar players.…

— Orianthi

I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come…

— Ted Templeman