Keith Richards Quotes

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

'My Friends Over You' has two guitars, but if you listen to us live, it's the same... I know how to hit a rhythm note and play lead at the same time.

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.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.

As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!

I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's the rhythm thing that's way more impressive and important to a band.

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar - and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that's what I was fascinated with in my teen years.

I've never been a great lead guitar player.

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and know that your feelings aren't controlled by the controls of your guitar.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever.

My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

I used my Schecter for all my rhythms and most of my solos, certainly the fast solos.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.

Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American, and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two are not good.