Guitarists Quotes

1. "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."
Author: Alvin Lee

2. "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."
Author: Andres Segovia

3. "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."
Author: Dan Auerbach

4. "Had Kurt Cobain not committed suicide in 1994, would his genius have survived the continuous incisions of a media that was only too proud of its ability to chisel away at his fragile psyche in the years before he decided that he'd had enough off their invasions? And, had Jimi Hendrix not passed way in 1970, would he, too have eventually fallen into decline, first equalled, then eclipsed by the brilliant wave of new guitarists: Robin Trower, Ritchie Blackmore, Mick Ronson, who emerged during the early 1970s? In death, Hendrix led by example: in life he could have been left for the dead."
Author: Dave Thompson

5. "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."
Author: Joe Perry

6. "I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered."
Author: Jonny Greenwood

7. "I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer."
Author: Kiefer Sutherland

8. "I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write."
Author: Lou Doillon

9. "I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means."
Author: M. Ward

10. "After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists."
Author: Robyn Hitchcock

11. "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"
Author: Tim Brookes

12. "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."
Author: Tina Weymouth

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