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Brownie McGhee

"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."

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"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."

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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 mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs."

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"For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion."

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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

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"I've played piano and guitar when I was younger."

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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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"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."

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"I just go where the guitar takes me."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it."

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"Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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"When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some."
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"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."
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"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."
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"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."
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"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever."
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"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
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"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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