Guitarist Quotes

• If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Should, Synthesizers

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• The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

  Jimmy Page

  Music, Rocks, Important

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• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Guitar, Drunk

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• I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

  Marc Ribot

  Mean, Guitar, Pieces

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• As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

  John Frusciante

  Funny, Inspiring, Heart

  "The Red Hot Chili Peppers Gods of Sex Funk". Guitar Player Intreview with Joe Gore, October 1991.

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• If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

  Jerry Garcia

  Funny, Inspiring, Assuming

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• A good player can make any guitar sound good.

  Mike Bloomfield

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Inspiring, Important

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  I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Mistake, Guitar

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• Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

  Larry Coryell

  Music, Years

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• If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mistake, Guitar Music, Trying

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• The song tells me what to play.

  Joe Walsh

  Funny, Inspiring, Song

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• Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

  Scott Henderson

  Funny, Inspiring

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Idols

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• The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church.

  Dave Brubeck

  Spiritual, Player, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

  B. B. King

  Music, Rocks, Play

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• I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Funny, Inspiring, Mean

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• Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

  John Mayer

  Failure, Who I Am, Hendrix

  "100 Greatest Artists. Jimi Hendrix" by John Mayer, December 2, 2010.

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• I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

  Phoebe Snow

  Female, Alive, Fantasy

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• 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 Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

  Howard Roberts

  Funny, Inspiring, Religious

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• I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

  David Torn

  Funny, Inspiring, Jobs

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• I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgrens soloing, because hes so melodic. I love John Lennons rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist.

  Johnny Marr

  Player, Mind, Keith

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• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

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