Guitarist Quotes - page 3

I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch. (Vinnie Vincent)
I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
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. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar. View quote
Ian McEwan
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. View quote
Nick Cave
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics. View quote
Hope Solo
I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgrens soloing, because hes so melodic. I love John Lennons rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist. View quote
Johnny Marr
Roger: It's complicated. It kind of has different phases. It will be like Chris [Demakes, guitarist/singer] or I will have a song idea and Vinnie Fiorello [drummer/lyricist] will write lyrics that go with that song idea or Vinnie will just have words that he wrote down and we'll take that and sort of mold it into a song. I mean it kind of happens in different ways and not everyone is always involved, and sometimes everyone is involved it just depends. There's no like formula for writing songs at least not in our band. It's pretty much however it comes apart and falls apart and everything if it feels right it feels right the song is the ultimate guide. Am I being too hippie for you? View quote
Roger Manganelli
Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm. View quote
Kirk Hammett
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. View quote
Kirk Hammett
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer. (Robert Smith (musician))
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)