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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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"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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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."
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"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano."
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"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."
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"I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music."
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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."
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"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."
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"I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility."
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"I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one."
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"I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life."
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"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."
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"I was a guitar player first off."
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