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"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."
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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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"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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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."
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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 always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
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"I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels."
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"This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time."
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"My first album came out in 1979."
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"I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know."
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"There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him."
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"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul."
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"I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me."
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"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."
Life
"I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer."
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"I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion."
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