Paul Gilbert Quotes

As far as people, I've always loved Tony Iommi's sound, just the grittiness that was in that era of metal where it wasn't too fuzzy, and you could still hear the guitar and the fingers, but it still had this chunky, meat-and-potatoes sound to it.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

I'd like to know how to play the guitar.

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.

Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules.

I'm not a guitar hero.

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

I hope everyone can appreciate the wonderful aspects of metal music.

We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we've got a lot of melody.

I was lucky to start playing guitar in the Eighties when so many great players were around to inspire me, like Yngwie Malmsteen, Van Halen and especially Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden.

There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves.

My first influences for playing were Johnny Ramone and Jimmy Page, the same as everybody else. Joe Perry. The guys in Alice Cooper's band, whatever their names were. Mick Ronson from David Bowie. You know who really influenced me to write songs? Iron Maiden.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it 'fuzz.'