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"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."
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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
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"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living."
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"Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now."
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"A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts."
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"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."
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"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."
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"If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth."
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"I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have."
History
"I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff."
Mistake
"When people don't get enough information, they make it up."
People
"If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat."
People
"If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record."
Chance
"Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll."
Woman
"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."
Growing up
"We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle."
Hair
"You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio."
Difference
"Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone."
Sound
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