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"The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver.""

Ideas Guitar California
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Nicky Romero DJ, Music Producer
Guitar

"I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music."

Thinking Play Guitar
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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Guitar

"I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied."

Believe Mean Guitar
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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Guitar

"There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is."

Thinking Two Guitar
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Jimi Hendrix Musician, Guitarist
Guitar

"One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok."

Thinking Guitar Tonight
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John Lennon Musician, Activist
Guitar

"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."

Inspirational War Guitar
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John Sebastian Musician
Guitar

"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."

Trying Guy Guitar
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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
Guitar

"I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself."

Together Guitar Musician
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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
Guitar

"One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio."

Guitar One Day Steps
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Jordan Knight Singer, Songwriter
Guitar

"When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife."

Giving Guitar Awards
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B. B. King Musician
Guitar

"I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!"

Cutting Kings Guitar
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Paul Reed Smith Guitar Maker
Guitar

"In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61."

May Guitar Cameras
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Daniel Smith Artist
Guitar

"Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together."

Song Together Guitar
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Carole King Singer-songwriter
Guitar

"I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band."

Moving Guitar Piano
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