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Profession: Musician
Nationality: American
Birthday: November 29, 1947

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Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

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I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

Eddie Van Halen

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My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.

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If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

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The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

Bruce Dickinson

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I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

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I buy way too many books.

Orson Scott Card

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If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

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Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

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Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

Jonny Greenwood

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My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

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To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

Madeleine Peyroux

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I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Vivienne Westwood

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My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

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I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

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When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Miranda Cosgrove

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I buy way too many cookbooks and read food blogs at night when I can't sleep.

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