The guitar and flute duet was very fascinating. You don't generally see guitar and flute playing together so I really liked how it came together and blended so well. I enjoyed it a lot.
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Related All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based ... IAN ANDERSON I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at ... KAT DENNINGS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ... DOC WATSON I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling... ANDREA BOCELLI So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore.... STURGILL SIMPSON So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty we... RUSTY ANDERSON I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I c... ERIC SAN The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a numb... IAN ANDERSON So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and..... CALLIE THORNE I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to... JOHN F. KERRY In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s... AUTRE NE VEUT I just liked the sound that came out of a flute. I just loved it. It just initially attracted me and... LAURA NUNEZ In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in t... PAUL WELLER I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this prob... MAC DEMARCO The first flute I ever had was a Henry Potter wooden 5-keyed flute. JAMES GALWAY There is no way Top Wind can think that I am going to breeze in and buy a flute, so I can truthfully... JAMES GALWAY I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played... GARY BURTON It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot t... JIM SULLIVAN I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls playe... ABIGAIL WASHBURN I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno... POST MALONE The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song toge... TOM PETTY I'm so proud of this team. They overcame a lot of obstacles, and they're true winners. We did a good... SCOTT BRACCO When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. J MASCIS It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps m... ANDREA BOCELLI I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do wit... ACE FREHLEY I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar,... DANIEL EK My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... KIP WINGER I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a ... IAN ANDERSON I began playing the flute during the summer before my sixth grade year when I was 11 years old, and ... AMBER CUNNINGHAM I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass cla... TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. T... ALEX LIFESON For a lot of us, this is our third year playing together. A lot of guys are all really good friends ... COLTER NEGRANTI My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playi... BILLY CORGAN A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beg... CAROLINE CORR The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flut... SHAWN AMOS Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing ... CHRISTIAN KANE Musically it's impressive how much he sounds like a flute or a theremin. It was very impressive. Cle... BEN WINTER When he came to my home, he was just as nice as he could be, well-educated, well-mannered. We sat an... LINDA HEMBREE Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. DAVE NAVARRO I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and... BOZ SCAGGS I haven't been playing offense very well. Tonight, finally, it came together. [Softball coach Tim Wa... BROOKE JOHNSON I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to... JOAN BAEZ I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'... CARLOS SANTANA I never really enjoyed playing acoustic before. But now I really kind of like it. I find myself play... JACK O'SHEA I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphon... IAN ANDERSON I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic g... DAMON ALBARN It came together so naturally. The skeleton was built, and all we had to do was put it together. DANNY SHAFER Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today... WAYNE KRAMER For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vib... MORTON FELDMAN For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato... MORTON FELDMAN A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beg... CAROLINE CORR When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blos... BECKY G I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and ... STEVE VAI I have no idea how we (meaning his father) will celebrate tonight. We had a lot of fun this week tog... EDOARDO MOLINARI I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. AUSTIN BUTLER I'm glad I was in business. I enjoyed the customers that came in. And I enjoyed the money I made. I ... HAROLD ROSENBLATT We've finally put it together to start playing well, and we don't have one dominant player, so we ha... WAYNE ROGERS The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my gu... JIMI HENDRIX It was really tough out there. I felt I played well enough, but it was so windy and the course is pl... CATRIONA MATTHEW I really liked and enjoyed the campus. I liked the coaches, I liked the players and the overall envi... DEVRON BOSTICK I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it. ART GARFUNKEL They focused on their game, not searching on the screens to see who's got what. Amy was totally rela... TOM COATES I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It'... ALEX LIFESON I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. ... SLASH I recently matched up two flute players here in Hudson County. I like bringing together some lonely ... BETH COHEN When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I... CHRIS CORNELL All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An... GUY CLARK I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic. DIMEBAG DARRELL As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cl... DAN AUERBACH This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came o... SEAN WILLIAM SCOTT Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal. GAVIN DEGRAW It was Jon’s birthday. And after you know somebody for 25 years it’s hard to get’em something ... RICHIE SAMBORA Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other ba... ROBBIE ROBERTSON When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing... ALEX LIFESON If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how... EDDIE VAN HALEN I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or p... CATHERINE HARDWICKE I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up w... DUSTIN LYNCH It was a good showing for our team and it was a great atmosphere. It was a great game for everybody ... BENJAMIN BETTS It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charmin... FREDDIE STROMA First it was the fascinating comic book art that caught my attention, ... Later, I began to read the... BILL PHILLIPS I loved it. The students were great and well-mannered. They cheered and really enjoyed it. And at th... DEBORAH BROWN After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi... KIRK HAMMETT In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ... TOMMY RAMONE I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. BROWNIE MCGHEE I believe if a flute is truly worth anything the maker should sell it and the player should buy it. JAMES GALWAY Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and tr... JONATHAN RICHMAN I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN A lot of years. It was fun. We played really well together. I miss those days. JULIANN VAN LIEW
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AMY SEDARIS You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y... AMY SEDARIS I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak... AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ... AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy. AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But... AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'... AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ... AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus... AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color. AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway... AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto... AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ... AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty. AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel... AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me. AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop. AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ... AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge... AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ... AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people. AMY SEDARIS