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"A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs."
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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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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."
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"If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth."
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"I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love."
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"That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert."
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"I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it."
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"I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record."
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"I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations."
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"Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me."
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"I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late."
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"Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one."
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"I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record."
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