Guitarist Quotes

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.

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.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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

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.

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