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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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"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 had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."
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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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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."
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"You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation."
Fish

"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
Father

"Every song is like a painting."
Painting

"There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around."
Love

"I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock."
Time

"You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert."
Passion

"I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw."
Wife

"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
Guitar

"As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that."
Music

"I've got holes in my guitar."
Guitar
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