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"I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players."
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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio."
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"My songs are more arrangements than they are songs."
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"It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak."
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"I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent."
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"The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me."
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"I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best."
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"A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream."
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"Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business."
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"Music has nothing to do with your technical ability."
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"I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me."
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