#guitarist

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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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. ↗

— Alvin Lee

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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

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

— Ian Mcewan

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

— Brad Paisley

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I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#any #classical #easy #enjoyed #good

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. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#circle #composers #guitar #guitarists #i

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

— Eric Clapton

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

— Kevin Eubanks

#greatest #guitarist #i #i think #jazz