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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.

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Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
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Domestic Myself
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Culture Musician Myself Obvious Season Thinking
From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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Amazing Classic Experiment Guitar Instrument Myself Sound Thinking
Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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Play Presence Yourself
There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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Art Dreams Guitar Important Myself Name Style Wealth
You can’t overthink the music. Mood and intensity can’t be manufactured. The blues isn’t about structure; it’s what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciﬁc moment is what drives it.
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Capture Drive Intense Moments Mood Music Myself Specific Structure
A lot of people can’t be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn’t bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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Alone Fright People Security
I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.
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Age Myself Reach Serious Thinking
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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Artist Creation Environment Help Learning Yourself
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
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Believe Development Different Guitar Identify Inheritance Instrument Music Myself
There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.
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Enjoyment Goodness Guitar Instrument Time
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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Guitar Identify Player Thinking Yourself
This week, I’m a gypsy. Maybe next week it’ll be glitter rock.
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Change Myself Personality
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Band Photograph Portrait Record Time
The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.
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Genius Lose Music Myself
I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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Experience Musician Myself Reality Thinking Time Travel World

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