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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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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."
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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
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"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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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."
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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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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers."
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"Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make."
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"I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild."
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"It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world."
Talent
"I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense."
Art
"We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time."
Time
"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
Artist
"Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided."
Art
"I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act."
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"We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God."
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"It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it."
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