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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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"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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"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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"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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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
"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
"I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating."
Language
"It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore."
Hope
"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."
Now
"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."
Guitar
"It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band."
Today
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