Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. … - Frank Zappa

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At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Frank Zappa

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming. . . . . . clouds of educated gnat-notes.

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As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

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Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it. . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

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