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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."

"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."

"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor."

"In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music."

"Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different."

"Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not."

"So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children."

"We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way."

"Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in."

"In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed."
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