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"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
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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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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
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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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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers."
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"Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics."
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"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."
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"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
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"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."
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"Songs are life in 80 words or less."
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"I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly."
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"I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people."
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"If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs."
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"Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory."
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"There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from."
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