Legendary Guitarist Quotes

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

Steve Vai had a unique style of playing. Steve Vai didn't sound like anyone else: Steve Vai sounded like Steve Vai.

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.

I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out, just packed and full of really great musicians.

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.