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"I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars."
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"Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band."
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"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."

"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."

"If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am."

"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
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"When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work."


"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."


"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."


"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."


"Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man."


"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
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