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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."
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"Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."
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"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."
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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
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"The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish."
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"This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level."
Music
"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
"There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are."
Men
"I love all kinds of music."
Love
"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
Music
"My first love was the sound of guitar."
Love
"As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano."
Love
"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with."
Guitar
"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are."
Music
"I was a guitar player first off."
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