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"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."
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"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."
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."
"I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others."
"There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done."
"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."
"People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down."
"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."
"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly."
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