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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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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."
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"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"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."
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"I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs."
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"I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."
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"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."
Music
"I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there."
Freedom
"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."
Act
"A part of me has become immortal, out of my control."
Control
"One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better."
Knowledge
"I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!"
Music
"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."
Country
"I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years."
Thought
"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."
Trying
"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time."
Time
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