#guitarist

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#began #big #big band #charlie #christian

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ↗

— John Mayer

#become #defined #failure #guitarist #hendrix

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#am #blues #guitarist #i #i am

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. ↗

— Paul Simon

#good #guitar #guitarist #harmonic #i

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. ↗

— Andy Summers

#feel #guitarist #instrument #intimidated #own

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. ↗

— David Amram

#bass #bass player #compliments #doing #drummer

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. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#great #guitarist #i #i can #jazz

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

— Ritchie Blackmore

#i #important #myself #see #such

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. ↗

— John Fahey

#being #dispassionate #explain #greatest #guitarists

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist. ↗

— Carole King

#dream #eric #eric clapton #guitarist