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"I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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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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"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
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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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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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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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"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
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"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
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"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."
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"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."
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"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."
Life
"I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do."
Imagination
"I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels."
Music
"They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control."
Music
"I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer."
Artist
"My first album came out in 1979."
First
"There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him."
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"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul."
Soul
"I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano."
Music
"This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time."
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