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

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

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."

"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."

"I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it."
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