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Adrian Belew

"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."

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"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

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Donna Grant

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

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Adrian Belew
"I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs."

Age

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Adrian Belew
"The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other."

Work

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Adrian Belew
"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."

Guitar

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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!"

Time

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Adrian Belew
"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."

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Adrian Belew
"I love drums and still play frequently."

Love

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Adrian Belew
"King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe."

Europe

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Adrian Belew
"I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others."

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Adrian Belew
"I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder."

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Adrian Belew
"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."

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