"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."

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"I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."

Dave Mustaine, American Musician

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"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."

Brian May, English Musician

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"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."

Thurston Moore, American Musician

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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."

Gavin DeGraw, American Musician

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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."

Adrian Belew, American Musician

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"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Guitar, Play

"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."

Tennessee Ernie Ford, American Musician

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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

Ken Hensley, English Musician

Guitar, Open, Play, Sound

"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."

Marc Almond, British Musician

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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

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"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."

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"What's really fun is to write under different names."

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"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."

Men

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

Interest

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

Time

"I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you."

Business

"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."

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"I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."

"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."

"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."

"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."

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."

"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."

"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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"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."

"What's really fun is to write under different names."

"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."

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

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

"I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you."

"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."

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

"Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense."

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