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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."

"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

"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."

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

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

"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."

"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've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there."

"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."

"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."

"I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice."

"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."
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