"I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing."
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"It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do."
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"Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record."
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"A guitar has moonlight in it."
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"Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar."
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"I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her."
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"I just want to be a guy with a guitar."
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"For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone."
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"I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd."
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"Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass."
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"Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people."
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"My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it."
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"In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar."
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"The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned."
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"My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar."
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"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
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"The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer."
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"I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it."
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"Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct."
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"Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets."
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