Adrian Belew Quotes

• Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

  Adrian Belew

  Digital, Fatness, Analog

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• Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

  Adrian Belew

  School, Age, Band

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• I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

  Adrian Belew

  Guitar, Sound, Able

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• I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60′s or 70′s recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

  Adrian Belew

  Anniversary, Years, Dust

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• As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Inspiration, Ideas

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• My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

  Adrian Belew

  Work Out, Effort, Trying

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• King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

  Adrian Belew

  Kings, Challenges, Easy

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• Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

  Adrian Belew

  Guitar, Years, Next Year

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• Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

  Adrian Belew

  Lonely, Luxury, Band

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• My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

  Adrian Belew

  Music, Heart, Soul

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• I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

  Adrian Belew

  Play, Band, Might

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• I love drums and still play frequently.

  Adrian Belew

  Play, Stills

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• I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

  Adrian Belew

  Artist, Enjoyed

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• DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Dust, Demos

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• As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

  Adrian Belew

  Vocabulary, Appreciate, Technique

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• I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

  Adrian Belew

  Guitar, Years, Secret

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