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William Christopher Handy

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

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

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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

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"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."

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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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"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with."

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

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"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."

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"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
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"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
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"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
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"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."
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"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
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"Nature was my kindergarten."
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