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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I criticize my own work pretty harshly."
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"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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"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."
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"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."
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"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."
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"I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it."
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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."
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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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"Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count."
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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
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"He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height."
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"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
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"Melancholy is no bad thing."
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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