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I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.