Shredding Quotes

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

Men who proclaimed it a great advance for human freedom, when 4,000 unborn children are daily shredded in the abortuaries of the United States, are to be laughed at when they profess moral horror over the shredding of documents.

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.

I remember where I was when I heard Yngwie Malmsteen for the first time. It was such an epiphany for me, and it really shaped the way I play today. I think I heard him in '83, if I'm not mistaken - I was 13 years old - and it really was amazing for me.

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

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.

That was very flattering, meeting Steve Vai and hearing his stuff, because he was kind of a fan, even though we kind of dumbed down what he was doing and what people were doing in the '80s. We weren't doing solos; we were doing sounds and all this creepy, trippy stuff.

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.

Some people will basically just shred all over everything, even a ballad. I'm glad I wasn't born with that genetic chip - the need to just wheedle-whee all over the place.

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

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

I like being able to do dueling leads, and it's fun to be able to shred.

We shred every day.

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

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

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

I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.

Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain.

Seriously, though, I think the only musical term that's ever put a bee in my bonnet is 'shred.' I tried to peddle the term 'Terrifying Guitar' to the world, but it just didn't stick. Now we've got 'shred.'