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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 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."
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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."
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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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