Quotes About Guitarist

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid.

My ability maps my own writing. I haven't spent a whole lot of time biting licks from the really quick masters. That's why I'm not very good at that sort of super-fast, shreddy sweeping. So I've never considered myself a traditionally good, fast-playing guitarist.

I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

Twenty-five years later, an African American guitarist named Son House sang, "The blues ain't nothing but a low-down, aching chill.

As a guitarist, though much of the world didn't know it, since the Beatles' album credits rarely mentioned who played the solos, he contributed some of band's most virtuosic playing, including the stinging solo on lead guitarist George Harrison's 'Taxman.

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.

Frederico Pena is an amazing talented guitarist and producer.

We made demos of those early songs that we recorded in our guitarist's bedroom with just a reel-to-reel tape, and we sent those to at least 20 different record companies at the time thinking, oh the offers are just going to be flowing in. The only person that did respond was Todd Rundgren, and we're forever indebted to him.

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.

The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

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 know in my heart of hearts that Ritchie Blackmore is one of the great guitar players of all time. He's a fabulous technician, and he's got incredible skills, and he was a great showman.

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.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

Tommy Tedesco.

My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.

Mimi Fox is one of the most exciting contemporary jazz guitarists I've heard.

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

I learnt fairly quickly that that was what I wanted to be - a guitarist - because it was the first thing I ever done in my life that really felt like it was something that I belonged to. I don't know... from the moment I picked it up it felt right.

One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.

así voy yo, borracho melancólico, guitarrista lunático, poeta, y pobre hombre en sueños, siempre buscando a Dios entre la niebla.

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.