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"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

"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 wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."

"I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!"

"I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more."

"I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!"

"I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans."
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