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"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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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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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!"
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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."
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"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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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"I'm not a good guitar player."
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"In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom."
Freedom
"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."
Sound
"I was totally into jazz in my teens."
Jazz
"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."
Writing
"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."
Sound
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
Guitar
"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."
Guitar
"It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward."
Past
"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
Guitar
"I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster."
People
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