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‘In the beginning when I started playing, I wanted an instrument that I could blow on and I’ve now found a way of getting something that I want out of the guitar. About 2 or 3 years ago I basically rediscovered the guitar, if you know what I mean, because I started to find a way of expressing myself through the guitar. In a way the instrument doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter what it is really, whether it’s a saxophone, a '''violin''', anything, there’s always a way of trying to find something from it. What I didn’t want to do is sound like somebody else.’
‘In the beginning when I started playing, I wanted an instrument that I could blow on and I’ve now found a way of getting something that I want out of the guitar. About 2 or 3 years ago I basically rediscovered the guitar, if you know what I mean, because I started to find a way of expressing myself through the guitar. In a way the instrument doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter what it is really, whether it’s a saxophone, a '''violin''', anything, there’s always a way of trying to find something from it. What I didn’t want to do is sound like somebody else.’


==[[...Where No Guitarist Has Gone Before... (Cymbiosis 1986)]]==
==[["...Where No Guitarist Has Gone Before..." (Cymbiosis 1986)]]==


Cymbiosis: I understand if your family could have afforded it you would have had a saxophone instead of a guitar when you were younger?
Cymbiosis: I understand if your family could have afforded it you would have had a saxophone instead of a guitar when you were younger?