Fingers Quote by Ray Flacke

Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my…

— Chris Rea

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

— Coy Bowles

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was,…

— B. B. King

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them

— Tommy Shaw

Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his…

— Larry Coryell

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

— Lemmy Kilmister

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla',…

— James Bay

We heard this wild solo going on and thought, I dont see any guitar player up there. It turned out it was the bass…

— James Hetfield

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff...…

— Rick Nielsen

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when…

— Bruno Mars

I grew up around guitar players.

— Charlie Haden

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal,…

— Roy Wood