"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."

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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."

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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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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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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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"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."

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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."

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"I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!"

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"I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more."

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"We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances."

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"I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!"

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"I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans."

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