Quotes from Notable
Guitarists
It’s impossible for me to feel like there’s only one way to do a thing. There’s nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it’s a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there’s a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear ‘em in a different register. And if you don’t have complete freedom, or you won’t let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that’s too horrible to even think about
You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you’ve accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it’s all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play
...I approach the guitar like a piano. I've reached a point where I transcend the instrument. A lot of the stuff I play on the 7-string guitar is supposed to be technically impossible, but I spent over twenty years figuring it out. I play the guitar like a piano, there's always two things going on at once. I'm thinking melody, but I'm also thinking of a background. I play the accompaniment on the low strings.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
-Wes Montgomery
-Joe Pass
-Lenny Breau
-B.B. King
-Robert Smith
-Elliot Smith
-Kurt Cobain
-Jimmy Page
-Jimi Hendrix