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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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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
"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 can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
"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."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart."
"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
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