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" I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar. "
Stephen Stills
Play
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" Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross. "
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" Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently. "
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