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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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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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"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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"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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"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."
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"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."
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"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
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"I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings."
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"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."
Life
"Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune."
Art
"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."
Guitar
"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
Class
"When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"I criticize my own work pretty harshly."
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"Simplicity is the key."
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