"This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out."
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"Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know."
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"Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing."
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"When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song."
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"Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello."
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"Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care."
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"From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code."
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"If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon."
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"I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time."
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"Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small."
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"The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever."
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"I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic."
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"Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar."
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"Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world."
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"Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day."
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"I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar."
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"I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested."
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"Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar."
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"Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument."
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"He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun."
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