“It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.” MeanHellPlayerDogPaperGuitarWoodsDamnPapersGuitar PlayerChoppers Author:Richard Betts
“I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.” PlayStudyPlayerPerspectiveListeningGrewBandGrew UpGuitarExpectedPianoComposerGuitar PlayerStudying Music Author:Daniel Rossen
“I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.” TryingCareHoursPlayerPlanetsSittingGuitarBeing The BestGuitar PlayerSitting AroundCould Care Less Author:Scott Ian
“My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.” ThinkingWantedRememberPlayerHappeningsGuitarMumSurgeonsGuitar Player Author:Brian May
“Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.” EnoughFeelingsPlayerGuitarMy FavoriteGuitar PlayerHendrix Author:Robin Trower
“... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.” PersonsPlayerNormalGuitarAstonishingGuitar PlayerSuperhumanDjango Author:Jeff Beck
“I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.” LightSongFunPlayerFansMoonBillsCourtGuitarAlbumsSparksTributePhantomsGuitar Player Author:Duncan Sheik
“When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.” KidsAudiencePlayerTablesGuitarFantasticChairsPantsBackwardsRippedGuitar PlayerOregon Author:Meredith Brooks
“Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.” PlayerGuitarGuitar Player Author:John Frusciante
“I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSongPlayerWrittenStyleGuitarSingersSongwritersSinger SongwritersGuitar PlayerBadges Author:Bert Jansch
“I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.” WayYearsFirstsHas BeensGirlStrongInterestPlayerHappenedInfluenceTaughtHeroLessonsSevenGuitarFolksClubsFantasticFifteenScotlandSeven YearsMy HeroGuitar PlayerEdinburgh Author:Bert Jansch
“I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!” ThinkingFirstsLittlesPlayRememberGuyBitsHoursChanceHalfPlayerMinutesStagePositionBandLittle BitGuitarTechniqueSoloRemember WhenPersonaCharismaGuitar PlayerDeltaDelta Blues Author:Bill Mallonee
“I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE.” SometimesYoungEnjoyPlayerListeningGuitarBrilliantBellsGuitar PlayerDukesTime Goes ByWilmington Author:David Bromberg
“Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He's a great guitar player. We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out on tour with us now. I'm not sure if he'll end up as the permanent guitar player, but he's the type of guy who can kind of step in and play anything. He was with the Gigolo Ants before, and he's really good.” IfsKindEndsPlayGuyLeftStepsPlayerTypeYeahGuitarPermanentNot SureAntsGuitar PlayerType Of GuyGigolo Author:Adam Schlesinger
“As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar player, invited me one day to join him recording film music with a band named Kraftwerk which I didn't know at the time. I came along and jammed at this session together with Ralf Hütter and a drummer (I believe his name was Charly Weiß). Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were present as listeners and everybody liked the spontaneous music we did together.” KnowsBelieveTogetherFilmNamesI BelieveCommunityPlayerOne DayBandGuitarHospitalsListenersSpontaneousInvitedSessionDrummerGuitar PlayerCommunity ServicePsychiatricFilm MusicConscientious ObjectorsPsychiatric Hospitals Author:Michael Rother
“There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing.” StillsSoulFeelingsSpaceEmotionTeachKnowingPlayerSonLaysNotesGuitarSentencesGenuineExcellentMy SonArticlesFeelings And EmotionsEricGuitar PlayerBlurHendrixImitator Author:Merrell Fankhauser
“I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.” ThinkingDifferentSpacePlayerGroupsFineLessonsGardenOppositesImpactRoseGuitarBeachCanadaVentureReally GreatMikeSurfGuitar PlayerFathomBallroomFalconRose GardenCossacks Author:Merrell Fankhauser
“We've done every record on our own. Its produced by our guitar player and sometimes we'll have some help mixin' it and have some outside engineers but for the most part, it's done by the band and I think that's the reason why CKY sounds like no other band, 'cause we make our own albums.” ThinkingSometimesReasonDoneHelpingCausesSoundRecordsPlayerBandGuitarAlbumsReason WhyEngineersGuitar Player Author:Jess Margera
“My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer at heart. I remember seeing the guitar player do the solo from "Werewolves of London" with his teeth, and that was the moment that had me hooked.” HeartPlayMomentsRememberMemoriesWatchesPlayerSeeingDadBandTradeGuitarMusicalMy DadLondonLocalsTeethSoloBankersDrummerWerewolfHookedGuitar Player Author:Charlie Worsham
“Once we get out on the road, my tour manager who is also my guitar player does a great job of taking weight off of my shoulders where I can just focus on playing the shows.About two hours before every show, the pacing starts and the anticipation builds. I prepare for it just like I would when I used ride bulls, slap yourself in the face, wake yourself up and get your heart going.” HeartDoeI CanTwoShowsJobsFacesUsedHoursFocusPlayerWeightGuitarShouldersManagersAnticipationBullsSlapGuitar PlayerGreat JobPacing Author:Cody Johnson
“I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantPlayerMusicianGuitarFocusedWhat You WantGuitar Player Author:Jonny Lang
“My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.” IfsTryingPlayWantedBeautifulMotherHalfKnownPlayerDiedGuitarVery GoodNineGuitar PlayerVery BeautifulBeautiful Lady Author:B. B. King
“There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about blues. There were a lot of powerful blues guitar players in the olden times that were women. It's just that when you think about blues, you have this one image in your mind.” ThinkingMindFirstsStrongStuffPowerfulPlayerGuitarStrong WomenGuitar PlayerBlues MusicOlden Times Author:Mirel Wagner
“There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.” MeanPlayerGuitarVery GoodGuitaristGuitar Player Author:Marnie Stern
“I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.” NeedsPlayerFemaleAll ThingsGuitarBoringGuitar PlayerSo Boring Author:Annie E. Clark
“I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.” FirstsHalfPlayerGuitarGuitar Player Author:Annie E. Clark
“I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.” PlayerGuitarAbstractionChasingIntuitiveGuitar Player Author:Annie E. Clark
“You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.” PlayerMusicianCommitmentGuitarGuitar Player Author:Gail Zappa
“It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!” PeopleWayDifferentUseChoicesPlayerEffectsColorLike YouMadGuitarFakeAestheticVocalGuitar PlayerCrutchesPedals Author:Kelly Hogan
“My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.” PlayWantedSchoolParentPlayerBrotherBandGuitarNeighborhoodPeersRehearsalJust ListenBasementsGuitar PlayerOlder BrotherAfter School Author:Jill Sobule
“Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.” HardEnoughStuffLinesMy OwnPlayerFineGuitarSingersProductivePushingGood EnoughPerformersRidingGuitar PlayerFine Lines Author:Cody Johnson
“I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.” WorldSimplePlayerWorstMusicianGuitarPerformingSoloGuitar Player Author:Loren Mazzacane Connors
“I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.” WayPlayerBandGuitarBassGuitar PlayerBass Players Author:Adam Jones
“For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.” KindNicePlayerGuitarSingersSongwritersGuitar Player Author:Doug Martsch
“My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.” WantedPlayerDadRaisedGuitarMy DadObsessedGuitar Player Author:Zach Condon
“There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.” IfsCountryUsedGuyPlayerFansRocksGuitarWizardsGuitar Player Author:Joe Perry
“I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.” WellsSleepPlayerMissingGuitarPerformersGood FriendGuitar PlayerSleep Well Author:Ronnie Wood
“Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.” WayRememberActorsCareersPlayerOne ThingRocksDrugBandGuitarAlcoholLos AngelesGuitar Player Author:Alice Cooper
“Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.” ThinkingTogetherPlayerGuitarInwardFeedbackMake You ThinkGuitar PlayerComing TogetherPositive Feedback Author:John Petrucci
“I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.” KindCoursesSidesPlayerListeningGuitarMetalsGuitar PlayerMaidensPlaying GuitarMetallica Author:John Petrucci
“I think it's a good way to sort of build your career and even when I was a young kid, I did the same thing, I looked at these guitar players, like ...I was a big fan of Steve Vai, and Al DiMeola, and said "What do those guys do?" and I found out that they went to Berkelee College of music, so I was like "Well, I'm going to go to Berkelee College of Music", and you try to, like, learn from those things, so... It's important.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsSaidImportantBigsKidsYoungGuyFoundCareersPlayerFansCollegeGuitarAlsGood WayGuitar Player Author:John Petrucci
“You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar player, it will come out in your improvisational style, maybe as a song writer it might come out in your note choices, or in your melodic choices, and it just helps to making your music that much more original and unique.” ThinkingKnowsHelpingMightSongChoicesPlayerInfluenceStyleTypeUniquePicksOriginalsNotesGuitarGuitar Player Author:John Petrucci
“Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.” LastsNamesPlayerTeamGuitarConvincedProducersEngineersVansDrummerGuitar PlayerVan Halen Author:Sammy Hagar
“Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.” PlayHandsBoysPlayerDiedGuitarGuitar PlayerRandySmall HandsRandy Rhoads Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.” PeopleFirstsWellsKnownAlivePlayerHeardMysteryGuitarGet BetterRaysWell KnownBuddyGuitar PlayerHollies Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.” WritingI CanSongPlayerGuitarGuitar Player Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.” FeelsYearsMadeSecretPlayerGuitarMade ItVarietySurvivedGuitar PlayerGetting Started Author:Monte Pittman
“I'd probably get a much quicker and better result if I went to a really great guitar player for a certain style of guitar that I have a problem doing. But there is a challenge in figuring out if I can do that myself.” IfsI CanProblemCertainCan DoChallengesResultsPlayerStyleGuitarReally GreatGuitar Player Author:Klayton
“There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.” PlayTogetherPlayerTeamEmotionalGuitarElegantGuitar PlayerGood Team Author:Richard Clayderman