Quotes By Famous Guitarist

15 BEST QUOTES BY GUITARIST

1.

I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.

-John Petrucci

2.

I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn’t have a computer around so we didn’t waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

~ John Mayer

3.

I had struggled with alternate picking for a very long time. I never thought I could do it.

~ Paul Gilbert

4.

“I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

~ Steve Vai

5.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

~ Joe Satriani

6.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

~ Nuno Bettencourt

7.

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That’s pretty much, that should do it for me.

~ Slash

8.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don’t run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

~ Larry Carlton

9.

A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.

-Steve Vai

10.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

-Jimi Hendrix

11.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

-Steve Vai

12.

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

Jim Sullivan

13.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

-Dan Hawkins

14.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

Bruce Springsteen

15.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a song writer, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Jimi Hendrix