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It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.

— Eric Clapton

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound.

— Leon Bridges

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

— Damien Chazelle

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.

— Leo Kottke

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.

— Lou Gramm

I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

— Michael Giles

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

— Avicii

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

— Jeff Buckley

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

— Jimi Hendrix

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

— Roger Waters

✗Opposing Perspectives

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

— Phil Lesh