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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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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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"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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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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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 had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."
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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward."
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"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."
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"It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band."
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"I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work."
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"I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music."
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"I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards."
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"I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion."
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"I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over."
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"I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."
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