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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."

"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs."

"Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work."

"Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this."

"I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music."

"It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend."

"I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin."

"In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks."
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