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My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

— Jay Kay

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

— Olivia Holt

Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a good place for me to make music.

— Kygo

As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.

— Matt Bellamy

With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.

— Bernard Sumner

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

— Cliff Richard

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

— Dweezil Zappa

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

— David Byrne

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

— David Gilmour

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

— Colin Hay

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

— Ewan McGregor