“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” IfsWorldFeelsWritingLittlesHappensMovingLyingHateImaginationFictionPlayerThis WorldChangedKeysI HateScience FictionGuitarCornersNakedDancerSongwritersGuitar PlayerBlandTap Dancers Author:Jimi Hendrix
“The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.” ThinkingStillsWholeCareTodayPlayerHeardGroupsRocksGuitarReputationGuitar Player Author:Tom Verlaine
“Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.” KnowsStoriesGuyRecordsImaginePlayerFellowsKillingGuitarSingersLovelyTunesWithout YouGuitar PlayerHamVery SadSad Story Author:George Harrison
“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
“The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.” PlayerCoupleBandGuitarElectricHornsDrummerElectric Guitar Author:Keith Richards
“... 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
“The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.” FacesSoundPlayerGuitarHolesSincerityAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Dana Gould
“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
“I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.” PeopleThinkingRecordsPlayerRocksGuitarPopsSoloGuitar Solos Author:Gary Cherone
“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
“My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. I was all of 16 when I had my first guitar lesson with Joe. But I never focused on being a bebop player. I loved the harmony, rhythm and phrasing, but I wanted to apply them to my own concept and sound.” FirstsArtWantedCoursesSoundMy OwnPlayerLessonsConceptsHarmonyJazzGuitarFocusedRhythmFirst LoveMontgomeryBebop Author:Larry Carlton
“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
“Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.” TryingPlayLeftRecordsFivePlayerGuitarChicagoLoneLone WolfRecord Players Author:James Cotton
“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
“I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.” DreamAgeSchoolCareersStudyPlayerLessonsBandSixHigh SchoolInstrumentsGuitarTeenagerPianoSessionClassical MusicAcademyKeyboardsViennaPiano LessonAfter High SchoolLife After High SchoolTangerines Author:Paul Haslinger
“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
“The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.” PeopleFeelsYearsIdeasGuyPlayerSingingGuitarStartingWelcomeDepressingStoolsBlues MusicPreconceived Ideas Author:B. B. King
“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