Dad Quote by Lola Kirke

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass…

— Orianthi

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a…

— Orianthi

Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there was no…

— Julian Bream

There have never been a lot of female guitarists out there, so most of my influences were male. Acoustically, I followed Joni Mitchell and…

— Nancy Wilson

If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a girl." My…

— Thao Nguyen

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the…

— Orianthi

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

— Orianthi

I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I…

— Chrissie Hynde

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

— Annie E. Clark

There aren't too many female guitar players.

— Orianthi

I grew up around guitar players.

— Charlie Haden

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan