"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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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

Brian Setzer, American Musician

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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."

Kirk Hammett, American Musician

Guitar, Race, Want

"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

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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

Johnny Winter, American Musician

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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."

Suzi Quatro, American Musician

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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."

Otis Rush, American Musician

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"If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song."

Christopher Cross, American Musician

Guitar, Play, Song

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Guitar, Years

"I just go where the guitar takes me."

Angus Young, Scottish Musician

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

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

Music

"I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years."

People

"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."

Attention

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

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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."

Acceptance

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

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"I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun."

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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

"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."

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

"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."

"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."

"If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song."

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

"I just go where the guitar takes me."

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

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

"I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun."

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

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

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