"You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar."
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"You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!"
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"He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar."
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"Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly."
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"I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them."
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"I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’"
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"I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head."
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"I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course."
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"I just want to be a better guitar player, really."
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"There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance."
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"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."
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"Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide."
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"Rumble is the best instrumental ever."
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"Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player."
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"The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland."
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"I want a thousand guitars . . ."
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"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
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"When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs."
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"My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer."
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"I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know."
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