Gary Moore

I learnt fairly quickly that that was what I wanted to be - a guitarist - because it was the first thing I ever done in my life that really felt like it was something that I belonged to. I don't know... from the moment I picked it up it felt right.

Irish Musician

Josh Hartnett

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

Actor

Ted Dwane

I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there.

British Musician

William Singe

I was raised by my father, who was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bass player. His brothers all did the same thing, so I was kind of always raised around the music.

American Musician

Oscar Isaac

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

Guatemalan Actor

Nita Strauss

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

Rick Nielsen

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

Peter Frampton

I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

English Musician

Jonny Greenwood

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

Ritchie Blackmore

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

Refers to the guitarist's specific function in a band: lead, rhythm, or bass.

Band Role

Guitarists may specialize in acoustic or electric guitars, each with unique sound.

Acoustic versus Electric

Guitarists often play in a specific musical genre like rock, jazz, or blues.

Genre Specific

 but the guitarist pitch bending might be of critical expressive importance. The speech to song illusion captures how simply repeating a sentence a number of times shifts listeners attention to the pitch and temporal aspects of the sound, so that the repeated spoken language

Why we love repetition...

 guitarist and and the songs are from the 60s and 70s right many of them that's right many I went back into my little chest of your songs and back to the sick because it's now the fifty fiftieth year

A message of peace, hope...

 That was a long weekend. Now, in my past life as an able-bodied person, I'd been a guitarist. I was alright as a player, but I'd never really taken it further.