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Tennessee Ernie Ford

"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"My sunglasses are like my guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."

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Akshay Vasu

"I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song."

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Tennessee Ernie Ford
"Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it."

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Tennessee Ernie Ford
"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."

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Tennessee Ernie Ford
"You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not."

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Tennessee Ernie Ford
"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material."

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