"My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite."
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"I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of"
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"Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats."
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"I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month."
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"Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether."
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"If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen."
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"This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive."
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"Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums."
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"A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!"
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"When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid."
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"I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song."
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"I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player."
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"When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place."
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"Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me."
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"Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken."
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"In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance."
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"If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson"
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"I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf."
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"I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come."
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"Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound."
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