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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
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"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."
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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."
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"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
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"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."
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"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."
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"I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today."
Artist
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
Performance
"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."
Music
"But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can."
Work
"Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes."
First
"What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say."
Respect
"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."
Men
"What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive."
Music
"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man."
Man
"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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