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"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."
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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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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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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
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"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with."
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"I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs."
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"For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion."
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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"I would like to play with electronic keyboards again."
Play
"I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."
Nostalgia
"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."
Writing
"I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating."
Language
"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."
Sound
"I was totally into jazz in my teens."
Jazz
"My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient."
Favorite
"It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward."
Past
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
Guitar
"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."
Now
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