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

  Sam Palladio

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

  John Mayer

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• I don’t think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn’t get the sounds out always due to technical limitations – now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

  Gary Lucas

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• There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.

  Tommy Shaw

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• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Tommy Shaw

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• I didn’t have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  Page McConnell

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• After the Soft Boys I just didn’t want to work with any more guitarists.

  Robyn Hitchcock

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• If I could sing, I wouldn’t be a guitarist.

  If I could sing, I wouldn’t be a guitarist.

  Robin Trower

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• Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

  George Thorogood

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• With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

  William Christopher Handy

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• I don’t see myself as such an important guitarist.

  Ritchie Blackmore

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• The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

  George Benson

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• My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn’t imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

  George Benson

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• I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

  George Benson

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• I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

  George Benson

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• Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert’s a great man, and again, you know, I don’t play the guitar very good, but when I’m playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

  Elvis Costello

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• 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

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• There’s only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

  Zakk Wylde

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