Boys Quote by Lemmy Kilmister

He [Randy Rhoads] was really a good guy. I never could get over how incredibly little he was.

— Lemmy Kilmister

If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the…

— Rickey Medlocke

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding…

— Tina Weymouth

Eddie Cochran - I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They…

— Lemmy

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

— Aaron Dessner

I grew up around guitar players.

— Charlie Haden

I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.

— Tad Kubler

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

— Paul Simon

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

— David Bowie

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was just blown…

— Kim Shattuck

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one…

— Annie E. Clark

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

— Donald Dunn