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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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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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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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"There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in."
Queen
"The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else."
Excitement
"Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect."
Time
"There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair."
Danger
"Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear."
People
"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."
Money
"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."
Belief
"Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit."
Right
"Mantovani was a great influence on me."
Influence
"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal."
Belief
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