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"The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me."
"The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage."
"I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy."
"Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will"
"The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole."
"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."
"Tonight I just need my guitar."
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
"I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play."
"What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc."
"I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another."
"The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo."
"Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect."
"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
"I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ."
"I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song."
"Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world."
"When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7."
"I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance."
"My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze."
