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Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. -- Dick Dale
I'm not a good guitar player. -- Adam Jones
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do. -- Sammy Hagar
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. -- Steve Vai
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. -- Adam Jones
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal. -- Gavin DeGraw
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like. -- Brad Paisley
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it. -- Jimmy Page
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you. -- Ted Nugent
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. -- Jimi Hendrix
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. -- Boz Scaggs
... guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ... -- Joe Satriani
Guitar players never listen to lead singers. -- Steven Tyler
I just want to be a better guitar player, really. -- Colin Hay
You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up -- Keith Richards
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion. -- Jimi Hendrix
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. -- B. B. King
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. -- Rufus Wainwright
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. -- John Mayer
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. -- Billy Corgan
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you. -- Nuno Bettencourt
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing. -- Joe Satriani
As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing. -- Les Paul
I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys. -- Robbie Robertson
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. -- Richard Thompson
A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard. -- Frank Gambale
In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for. -- Todd Rundgren
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer. -- Shannon Hoon
I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out. -- Avril Lavigne
My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer. -- George Benson
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. -- Hunter Hayes
Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello. -- Henry Rollins
And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period. -- James Iha
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! -- Tom Verlaine
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way. -- Charlie Hunter
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. -- John Frusciante
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. -- Chad Channing
Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player. -- Bruce Springsteen
When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do. -- Eric Clapton
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. -- 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. -- Mirel Wagner
I'm a struggling guitar player. -- Megyn Kelly
I was a guitar player first off. -- Boz Scaggs
I'll never be the best guitar player. -- Chad Kroeger
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. -- Stevie Jackson
A good player can make any guitar sound good. -- Mike Bloomfield
Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!! -- Walter Trout
Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player! -- Dave Liebman
I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se. -- Mick Jones
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived. -- Charley Pride
I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player. -- Lee DeWyze
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around. -- Johnny Winter
I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player. -- Rick Nielsen
I bet a chef could get more pussy than a guitar player right now. -- Roy Choi
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. -- Billy Corgan
Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. -- Zakk Wylde
Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world. -- George Harrison
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. -- Little Richard
I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did. -- Chuck Lorre
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar. -- George Thorogood
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing. -- Phil Lesh
It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums. -- Ryan Adams
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. -- George Benson
There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player. -- Marnie Stern
Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that. -- John Frusciante
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. -- Tina Weymouth
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. -- Joe Pass
Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from. -- Robin Trower
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up -- Billy Gibbons
I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction. -- Annie E. Clark
I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince. -- Ronnie Wood
Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died. -- Lemmy Kilmister
I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. -- Annie E. Clark
I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player. -- Laurent Brancowitz
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums. -- Dan Auerbach
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar. -- Sam Endicott
I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them. -- Chrissie Hynde
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them." -- Chrissie Hynde
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. -- Zach Condon
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker. -- Brian Setzer
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. -- Doug Martsch
I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar. -- Hunter Hayes
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. -- Guy Clark
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. -- Scott Ian
To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out. -- Jessica Hische
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. -- Gary Cherone
... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard... -- Bob Dylan
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. -- PJ Harvey
At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. Itâ??s like being a male ballerina in a way. Itâ??s not the norm. -- Orianthi
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. -- Dana Gould
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in. -- Billy Bragg
I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player. -- Brad Paisley
It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching. -- Gary Burton
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. -- Loren Mazzacane Connors
... 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. -- Jeff Beck
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it. -- Rory Gallagher
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. -- Joe Perry
I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me. -- Paul Weller
...A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip ... -- Henry Garza
we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job. -- Gene Tierney
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. -- Gail Zappa
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out. -- Ric Ocasek
In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work. -- Glenn Tipton
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. -- Brian May
I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other. -- Steve Vai
I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player. -- Rick Derringer
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. -- Monte Pittman
Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it. -- Hugh Laurie
Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business. -- J.J. Cale
It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that. -- James Iha
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. -- David Bromberg

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