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Brian May

"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."

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"I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything."
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"The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums."
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"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."
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"For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil."
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"There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured."
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"Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit."
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