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"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."
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"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."
"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss."
"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."
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