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• Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

  Tina Weymouth

  Kids, Guitar, Mentor

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• If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, If I Could, Ifs

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• The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.

  Bulat Okudzhava

  Singers, Composer, Hated

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• Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.

  Cub Koda

  Artist, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

  Miyavi

  Guitar, Samurai, Feels

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• Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

  Chris Hillman

  Light, Shining, Horizon

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• I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

  B. B. King

  Kings, Cutting, Guitar

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• In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Unique, Thinking, Musical

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• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  Dan Auerbach

  Guitar, Play, Hell

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• I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, Feels

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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• My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dad, Vacation, Guitar

  "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.

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• Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

  Carole King

  Dream, Guitar, Eric

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• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  Matt Cameron

  Guitar, Sound, Locks

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• I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

  Gerard Butler

  Guitar, Law, Training

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

  Peter Tork

  Sunday, Guitar, Band

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• To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

  John Abercrombie

  Funny, Inspiring, Imperfection

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• Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

  Andy Summers

  Funny, Inspiring, Done

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• I just plug in and let go.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Funny, Inspiring, Letting Go

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• Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

  James Stewart

  Funny, Inspiring, Trying

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• If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

  Russell Malone

  Funny, Inspiring, Team

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• I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

  Richard Thompson

  Funny, Inspiring, Nice

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• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion.

  Bill Milkowski

  Fashion, New York, Cds

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• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  M. Ward

  Mean, Sound

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