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"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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"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."
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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
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"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
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"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"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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"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
Growing up
"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot."
Movies
"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
Guitar
"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."
Movies
"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."
Ability
"I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another."
Time
"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one."
Positive
"One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left."
Inspirational
"While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time."
Love
"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that."
Thought
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