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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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"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 have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song."
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"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."
Guitar
"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
Music
"I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility."
Love
"I was a guitar player first off."
First
"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
Artist
"I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything."
Time
"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."
Music
"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
Life
"I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me."
Electricity
"I love all kinds of music."
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