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Paul Simon

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

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

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

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

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

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