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"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
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"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
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"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
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"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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"This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son."
Son
"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
Guitar
"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."
London
"That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick."
Hope
"I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually."
Years
"I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action."
Action
"Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive."
Guitar
"That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole."
Home
"We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music."
Music
"It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear."
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