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Tom Verlaine

"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."

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Donna Grant

"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."

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Donna Grant

"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."

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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

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

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Donna Grant

"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!"

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Donna Grant

"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."

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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

"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."

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

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Tom Verlaine
"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."

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Tom Verlaine
"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

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Tom Verlaine
"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."

Guitar

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

Sound

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

Interest

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Tom Verlaine
"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

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Tom Verlaine
"Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense."

Sense

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Tom Verlaine
"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

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

Quality

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