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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 like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."
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"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."
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"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."
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"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
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"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
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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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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
Guitar
"Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity."
Art
"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."
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"I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream."
Life
"The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it."
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"I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through."
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"Now, music almost feels naked in my mind."
Music
"I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best."
Control
"I like music because it's the only invisible art form."
Art
"I try not to do anything by formula."
Formula
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