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I've been using kind of a traditional metal guitar sound, a traditional hard-rock and metal guitar sound. That's what the trio thing is about.
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It's not surprising that a composer learns in detail an instrument. That's not surprising. That should be the first thing a composer does.
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It's not like rock was invented by people who were trying to show their great muscularity and how perfect and strong they could be.
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The Beatles were a pop group, but when you actually listen to the tracks, they were very rude about the way they went about things.
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Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.
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I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
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Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
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Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.
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I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
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