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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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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 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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"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."
Life
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
Guitar
"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."
Music
"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
"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
Music
"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
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
Life
"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
Day
"Nature was my kindergarten."
Nature
"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
Boats
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