Chet Atkins

“Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.”

“Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.”

“When you're a guitarist, you have to be on your toes all the time, just like a drummer.”

“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”

“A guy comes to Nashville and he wants to be a star, and when he gets to be a star, he wants to be a legend, and when he's a legend, he just wants to be a guy again.”

“If you don't have it in your heart, you can't play it.”

“I just want to be known as a guitar player.”