Guitar Role Quotes

It took me a long time to accept the idea that the guitar can take the place of a singer.

In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

I don't enjoy jazz guitar in general. I don't enjoy listening to a lot of it. I don't enjoy the tone. In general I've found its role in jazz to be kind of difficult.

Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took up a lot of space musically in the songs was really important to the way Rush developed. Geddy and Neil both were such active players and lot of the time we were all playing like crazy and it was too much and somebody had to reel it in and me being the faceless guy, I would do that.

The guitar shouldn't be a main instrument, it should be a texture. It shouldn't be important whether it's there or not. If it's important to you whether a guitar is there or not, you're weird.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.