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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.