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"I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked."
"I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests."
"We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it."
"And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either."
"Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar."
"I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop."
"My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums."
"Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man."
"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."
"I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago. He was a tremendous slideman. I never saw him do anything other than play the slide. I never just saw him just use his hand. He always used a slide. He had a little-bitty drummer we called "Shorty". He was about that high [hand gesture]. And he was his drummer. That's all he had was a slide guitar and a drummer."
"When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song."
"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."
"I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection."
"I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world."
"I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since."
"It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package."
"Practice like the Devil."
"When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!"
"She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat."
"I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on."
