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My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.
With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.
When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.
..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth.
In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.
"The main thing is to play your heart out and whatever helps you to do that is the right way".
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.
It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.
It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.
Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.
When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.
Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
When we toured with AC/DC, we always had to bring our A game. They really felt like our equals.
I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
Even when we were stuck touring, earning $100 a day, I never thought I'd even make it that far.
I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'
Very rarely can you bring someone new into a band and have them just fit perfectly, right away.
Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band.
I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.
The school suit allows me to be an extrovert. Basically, I'm the opposite of what I am on stage.
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.