Best Guitarist Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.”

“Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.”

“Richie Kotzen is such an unbelievable talent as a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.”

“My band's motto is 'Yngwie or the highway.' Do you think Leonardo Da Vinci allowed someone who came later to add to his paintings? It's impossible. That's the whole issue. I'm not a typical rock n' roll guitarist nor a simple band member.”

“Frederico Pena is an amazing talented guitarist and producer.”

“I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.'”

“Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.”

“I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.”

“Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.”

“I'm not a great guitarist, and I'm not a great singer.”

“I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.”

“I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.”

“Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.”

“I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.”

“If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.”

“I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.”

“I've had the chance to watch Metallica's James Hetfield from the side of the stage night after night, listening to his monitors, and his playing is so perfect. Slash is an amazing lead guitarist, but when you listen to his rhythm playing, you can hear how he pulls everything together with such a great feel, which is the most important thing.”

“Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.”

“I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.”

“In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.”

“If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.”

“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.”

“I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.”

“It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.”

“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

“I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.”

“I'm a good rhythm guitarist and that's it.”

“I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.”

“The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.”

“My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.”

“I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.”

“I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.”

“My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.”

“I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.”

“I learned mainly by listening to Andres Segovia and that was a great inspiration. And also the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.”