Able Quote by John Frusciante

Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write…

— Ryan Adams

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.

— Thalia Zedek

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

— Ian Mcewan

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

— Tash Sultana

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a…

— Paul Weller

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a…

— Slash

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

— John Frusciante

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing…

— Ryan Adams

Branching out to other genres - I think it's why people put me apart from other guitar instrumentalists.

— John 5

You have to listen to what someone is doing and help them get to where they want to go, musically speaking. I play a…

— McCoy Tyner

When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became…

— Z'EV