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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 have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."
"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
"Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers."
"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
"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."
"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
"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."
"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."
"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."
"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
"The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying."
"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."
"Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything."
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