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"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
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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."

"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."

"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."

"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."


"When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work."


"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."


"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."


"Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man."


"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
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