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"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."

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

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

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."

"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."
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"As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that."

"I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul."

"Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt."

"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."

"Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier."

"When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards."
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