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I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.


There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.


It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.


If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.


I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.


I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.


I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.


What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.


The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.


Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.


More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.


It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.


It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.


It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.


I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.


I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.


I was totally into jazz in my teens.


I think rock records tend to be very expensive.


I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.


For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.