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Jam Master Jay

"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."

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Donna Grant

"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."

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Donna Grant

"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

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Donna Grant

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."

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Donna Grant

"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."

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Donna Grant

"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not a good guitar player."

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Jam Master Jay
"You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open."

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Jam Master Jay
"If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem."

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Jam Master Jay
"Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows."

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Jam Master Jay
"Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it."

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Jam Master Jay
"Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it."

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Jam Master Jay
"Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar."

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Jam Master Jay
"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."

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Jam Master Jay
"At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up."

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Jam Master Jay
"There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it."

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Jam Master Jay
"I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers."

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