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Thomas Dolby

"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."

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"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"My sunglasses are like my guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."

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Akshay Vasu

"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."

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Akshay Vasu

"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."

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Thomas Dolby
"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers."

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Thomas Dolby
"At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it."

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Thomas Dolby
"I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression."

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Thomas Dolby
"It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."

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Thomas Dolby
"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."

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Thomas Dolby
"From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened."

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Thomas Dolby
"I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo."

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Thomas Dolby
"The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad."

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Thomas Dolby
"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well."

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Thomas Dolby
"The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys."

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