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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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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."
Art
"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."
Money
"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."
Music
"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
Love
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
Guitar
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
Life
"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
Music
"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."
Life
"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
Day
"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
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