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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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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."

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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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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."

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Amber Hurdle

"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."

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Amber Hurdle

"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

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Amber Hurdle

"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."

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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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"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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"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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"When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some."
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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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"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."
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"From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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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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