Gary Lucas Quotes

Gary Lucas — American Musician

Gary Lucas is an American guitarist, songwriter, soundtrack composer, and a recording artist with more than 25 solo albums... (wikipedia)

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

Gary Lucas Quotes

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