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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."

"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

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

"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."

"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living."

"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."

"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there."

"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition."

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
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