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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."
"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."
Explore more quotes by William Christopher Handy
"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."
"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
"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."
"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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