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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
"Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers."
"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."
"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
"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've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
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