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

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

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"In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom."

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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 just go where the guitar takes me."

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

"I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."

"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."

"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."

"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."

"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

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"The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown."

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"I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating."

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"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

"I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work."

"I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion."

"It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore."