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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do."
"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."
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
"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."
"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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"I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over."
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."
"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
"It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band."
"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."
"There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."
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