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Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything. -- Joe Pass
I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid. -- Izzy Stradlin
I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. -- Jonny Greenwood
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists. -- Robyn Hitchcock
It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. -- Kirk Hammett
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them. -- Tommy Shaw
I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means. -- M. Ward
I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer. -- Kiefer Sutherland
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write. -- Lou Doillon
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. -- Andres Segovia
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics. -- Alvin Lee
I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive. -- Buzz Osborne
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create. -- Dan Auerbach
Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid. -- Tina Weymouth
I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before. -- Miyavi
But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. -- John Fahey
Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. -- Hugh Laurie
The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get. -- Joe Perry
Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. -- Nick Cave
Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself. -- John Frusciante
Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up. -- Peter Tork
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. -- Bruce Springsteen
Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo. -- Alvin Lee
That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one of the great disco guys and one of the best guitarists ever, Nile Rodgers, to play on it. So that's great disco, but a modern disco, because it has great vocoders and synthesizers. -- Giorgio Moroder
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player. -- Todd Rundgren
Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists -- Tim Brookes
Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times! -- Narada Michael Walden
All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play. -- Eddie Martinez
I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians. -- Frank Gambale
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me. -- Bulat Okudzhava
If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more. -- Ace Frehley
The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art. -- Manuel de Falla
The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art. -- Manuel de Falla
It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana! -- Miyavi
One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to. -- Glenn Branca
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists. -- Ringo Starr
You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless. -- Smokey Robinson
There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player. -- Marnie Stern
I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one. -- Jimmy Page
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them -- Tommy Shaw
I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is. -- Jimmy Page
My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around. -- Lenny Breau
Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste. -- Kemp Muhl
...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists... -- Jimmy Page
I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds. -- Bryan Ferry
A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that. -- Ritchie Blackmore
Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it. -- Bryce Dessner
I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before. -- Miyavi
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity -- Joe Perry

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