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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

"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."

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
Explore more quotes by Adrian Belew

"We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!"

"As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box."

"For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live."

"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."

"I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record."
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