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I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi Hendrix play. I never understood that because, when I went and saw a great drummer or heard one, all I wanted to do was practice.

— Neil Peart

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✓Similar Perspectives

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.

— Prince

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

— Dave Holland

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

— Jam Master Jay

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

— Ian Anderson

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

— Colin Greenwood

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

— Brooke Burke

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

— Narada Michael Walden

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

— Tommy Ramone

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

— Walter Payton

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

— Oscar Isaac