Top 115 Guitar Player Quotes

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

That’s the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I’m not only the guitar player. I’m the background singer, and so I get to do both of those things. Sometimes we even switch instruments and I get to be the drummer.

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.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

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.

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can’t do it alone.

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you’re a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you’ll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

I grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had more of an ear for drums. He really wanted me to be a guitar player, like him.

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.

I’m the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, ’cause I went to junior high school with him, so I’ve known him for many years.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

Ask any guitar player – it’s hard to feed yourself when you’re picking for a living.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

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!

I’d love to have Jack White up. I think he’s just a phenomenal guitar player. I’d love to see him play up close because he’s got a killer voice, and he’s a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.

I love playing live, but our tours generally last about a year. I could never do this without the understanding and support of my wife. She’s also a guitar player, and we knew each other before Dream Theater started touring.

Yes, of course, I’ve been dreaming about it since I was a kid. Even now, I’m 31 years-old now and I’ve never been on a cover of a magazine. It makes you feel in such a way to do it with my signature guitar and to have it be Guitar Player magazine, it was really just an amazing experience.

Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it’s something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.

Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there’s always a fear of guitar overkill! That’s a funny question. If you went to a Taylor Swift concert or a Jay-Z show, people would think, ‘Oh, my God, I hope I don’t get guitar overkill.’ People come to our show for guitar, and there can never be enough.

I love to play guitar. I’ve never really been the type of guitar player that goes, ‘I’ll only play this style of music or that thing.’

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn’t read a note.

Besides being a guitar player, I’m a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Guitar Player’ was always the serious musician’s magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.

I love singing my own stuff, but I also love being a guitar player. Doing both keeps things interesting.

If you’d asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

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.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

So, really, I just try to be the best guitar player I can be – not the best female guitar player, not the best ‘X amount of years’ guitar player, or whatever – just the best guitar player.

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn’t have a good acoustic, and he’s a terrific player.

I was learning guitar as the band was beginning, at least in terms of being a lead guitar player. I could write songs, but I couldn’t really play solos.

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that’s what I do, too.

I’m definitely a guitar player, but it’s the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

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.

I’ll never be the best guitar player.

I’m a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of ‘The Hurting,’ but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland’s a guitar player and I’m a bass player.

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don’t like bands that look like roadies. I don’t like when I can’t tell who’s the guitar tech and who’s the guitar player.

We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman’s shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it’s not an easy road – definitely not; female guitar player or male guitar player, it’s not an easy road at all.

I’m a really big fan of Andy McKee – I think he’s an amazing acoustic guitar player, and he’s taken the torch from where Michael Hedges left off.

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.

Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I’d say I’m influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to ‘It’s Not My Cross to Bear’ first thing.

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band – one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

I don’t really make a distinction because when I’m acting, I feel like an actor, and when I DJ, I feel like a DJ, and when I play the guitar, I feel like a guitar player. I don’t know which I prefer. I think I just like to perform, in some way or another.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

I am an old-school guitar player. I’m not an ’80s-’90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am way more ’60s-’70s kind of style, and I write very ’60s-’70s.

My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, ‘Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff… what is this?’ It was a new kind of music.

It’s so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that’s related to the blues.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

I’ve always considered myself a serious guitar player, but I haven’t been really worried about whether the public thought I was. That never was part of my record sales strategy.

The thing I like to do when I’m making records is to keep it exciting, as opposed to, ‘There’s a bass player, guitar player… ‘ Just a little variety.