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Guitar Quotes
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt."
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"Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year."
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"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
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"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."
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"I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players."
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"Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive."
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"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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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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"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."
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"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
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"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."
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"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living."
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"To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do."
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"My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it."
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"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."
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"I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."
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"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
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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 have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."
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"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."
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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
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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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"Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers."
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