"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."

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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."

Andy Summers, English Musician

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"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

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"I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock."

Mick Mars, American Musician

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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

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"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."

Krist Novoselic, American Musician

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"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."

Tommy Bolin, American Musician

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"There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar."

John Fogerty, American Musician

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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."

Andy Summers, English Musician

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"Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now."

Roy Wood, English Musician

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"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."

Rick Springfield, American Musician

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Men

"I really don't have that much interest in stardom."

Interest

"It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing."

People

"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."

Quality

"I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss."

Kiss

"You have to have that organizational principle behind the song."

Music

"Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense."

Sense

"The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell."

Time

"The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug."

Love

"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely."

People