"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."

Andy Summers, English Musician

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"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

Guitar, Hearing, Interest

"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."

Mick Mars, American Musician

Guitar, Learning, Thinking

"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."

Marc Almond, British Musician

Guitar, Old, Play, Song

"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

Guitar,

"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."

Krist Novoselic, American Musician

Guitar, Song

"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."

Tommy Bolin, American Musician

Guitar, Play

"There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar."

John Fogerty, American Musician

Guitar, Sound, Trying

"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."

Andy Summers, English Musician

Guitar, Play

"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."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Guitar, Mind, Now, Right

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"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

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"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."

"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

"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."

"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."

"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."

"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."

"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."

"There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar."

"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."

"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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"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."

"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs."

"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

"It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"

"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable."

"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."