Guitar Players Quotes
Musicians on the craft, feel, and roots of guitar playing.
These guitar players quotes trace the instrument's roots, from blues as the foundation of rock and roll to a player admitting they're one of the "least-technical" around and preferring a guitar that simply feels and sounds good. It's a mix of technique and instinct. For more on the creative process, see our Creativity quotes.
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you mix it together, and that's my basic makeup.
To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
Creativity Quotes
I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.
I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes...
Emotion Quotes
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar...
However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the '90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at...
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.
Expression Quotes
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To...
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One musician also names a favorite guitarist directly, showing how players influence each other across generations. Continue with our Expression quotes for more on musical voice.
