"I've played piano and guitar when I was younger."
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally."
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"But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way."
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"My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old."
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"But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye."
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"In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well."
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"Link Wray is the all-time legend."
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"Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude."
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"Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh."
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"My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player."
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"When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar."
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"... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters"
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"I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing."
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"I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school."
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"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact."
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"I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything."
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"I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!"
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"I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs."
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"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence"
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