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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

"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 wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."

"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."

"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."

"When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag."

"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."

"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing."
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