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Tom Jenkinson

"I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar."

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"I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar."

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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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"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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"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."

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"Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged."
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"I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones."
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"I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me."
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"It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems."
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"Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction."
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"I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes."
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"Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music."
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"The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music."
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"My history is really playing live - not writing or recording."
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