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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

"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."

"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."

"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."

"When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together."

"To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?"

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music."

"Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows."
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