Guitarist Quotes

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

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.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

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.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

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.

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

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

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.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

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.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

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

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

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