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"My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it."
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"I'm not a good guitar player."
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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
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"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."
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"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."
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"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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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 like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."
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"I've got holes in my guitar."
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"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."
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"I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers."
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"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
Artist
"When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets."
Music
"I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it."
Want
"A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest."
Man
"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."
Mother
"People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music."
Music
"Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar."
Time
"You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."
Pen
"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."
Success
"We've survived by believing our life is going to get better."
Life
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