Favorite guitar player quotes.

[dkijc]

hmmm...

"unleash the *beep*ing fury!"
- Yngwie Malmsteen

 

[MegaDrummer]

This is paraphrased...

"He really wasn't THAT good."

Jimmy Page talking about Jimi Hendrix.

 

[fonts]

...when asked if he could read music, Jimi Hendrix said, "Yes, a little, but not enough to affect my playing."

 

[esun127]

I Like to play guitar.

~Esun127, 6/1/03

 

[Kramer]

"Crank it up!" Ronnie Van Zandt

That would be "zant"........there is no "d" in his name.

 

[Kelly5150]

That would be "zant"........there is no "d" in his name.

He had a problem with Hendrix (Hendricks) too....

 

[zer0sig]

it's probably worth noting that page didn't consider himself that great a guitarist, either. he always noted his own sloppiness, or at least does lately when asked.

hendrix, while amazing, was not a technician, but a sonic visionary who happened to play the guitar. i consider page in the same boat.

 

[BrainCase]

"Stay away from those pointy guitars, kid, They'll give ya VD" - Paul Westerberg

 

[Richie Woods]

"If I knew I was going to be an influence on so many guitar players, I would've practiced harder." ~ Ace Frehley

 

[Richie Woods]

One of my favorites...

"At our very worst, we were better than most people. And at our very best, we could just wipe the floor with the lot of them." ~ John Paul Jones

 

[David]

Santana say's...

"Tone is first and foremost"

 

[MK-Ultra]

"Women should be obscene and not heard"

John Lennon

"Genius is pain"

John Lennon

"We didn't change a fucking thing. The same bastards are in charge"

John Lennon

"We weren't in it for a poker game"

John Lennon

"We're bigger than Jesus now"

John Lennon

 

[Richie Woods]

From Mr. Politically Correct...

"I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware." ~ Ted Nugent

"I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears. I'm a gut pile addict. The pig didn't know I was there. It's my kick. I love shafting animals. It's rock 'n'roll power."~ Ted Nugent

 

[Richie Woods]

Here is a good one from Pete Townshend...

"When I'm on the stage, I'm not in control of myself at all. I don't even know who I am. I'm not this rational person who can sit here now and talk to you. If you walked on the stage with a microphone in the middle of the concert, I'd probably come close to killing you."

 

[MK-Ultra]

"Nugent isn't rational at the best of times."

Mk-Ultra...

Whoops!

That shoulda read 'Townshend isn't rational at the best of times' but it is more apropo for 'Bungalow Ted.'

 

[dragonworks]

paraphrasing
"I been playing those 12 bar blues for on to 40 years now and Im statrtin to get the hang of it."
Chuck Berry.

 

[Richie Woods]

That shoulda read 'Townshend isn't rational at the best of times' but it is more apropo for 'Bungalow Ted.'

It works for both of them!

 

[complexprocess]

From a thread on the activebass.comm forum:

anonymous guitarist: "I just bought a keyboard, so I don't need my bass anymore."

a bassist responds: "I just bought a year's supply of toilet paper, so I don't need a guitarist anymore."