All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mai...
I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years ...
My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
Guitar players never listen to lead singers.
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.
Kay Eiffel: [narrating] It wasn't just about finding a guitar. It was about finding a guitar that said something about Harold. Unfortunately, this guitar said: "When I get back to Georgia, that woman gonna feel my pain." This one said something along...
I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.
I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
I play enough guitar to get by. I don't like to play guitar live.
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided...
I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me o...
Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.
Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
