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"Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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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."
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"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
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"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
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"We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music."
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"Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive."
Guitar
"It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear."
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"This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son."
Son
"Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place."
People
"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
Guitar
"The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?"
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"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."
London
"That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick."
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"I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually."
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