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"Guitar playing isn't really for everybody."
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"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
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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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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."
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"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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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 had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"I have no guitar technique."
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"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."
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"Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up."
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"I've been on the road I think probably three years."
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"Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her."
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"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."
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"I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it."
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"The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that."
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"I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff."
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"If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard."
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"Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is."
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"Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it."
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