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When I practise scales I will play four notes on one string. If I'm playing a C major scale, starting on F, I'll play the F, G, A, and B on one string and the C will be on the A string, etc, etc. Because I found not only was it good for my hands but it was really good for interconnecting things.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Four
#Good
#Hands
#Play
#Will
You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you to do what you want to do.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Life
#Sign
#Wait
#Want
#Your
Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind of atmosphere, because when I see something I hear something.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Atmosphere
#Create
#Imagine
#Music
#See
I wanted to be a music fan who just listens to music. I never wanted to be musician. I didn't gravitate toward playing.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Fan
#Just
#Music
#Never
#Who
I like lyrics a lot.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Like
#Lot
#Lyrics
I had always wanted to compose music for movies, but had never been given the opportunity.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Given
#Movies
#Music
#Never
#Opportunity
Perhaps since I have been using the Synthaxe, it might have made it easier for people to listen to me, in a funny kind of way it takes for things to happen.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Funny
#Happen
#Me
#People
#Way
I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments, such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive, so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn't like the guitar at first, but after noodling on it for several months, I developed a feel for it.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Dad
#Expensive
#Feel
#Guitar
#Me
Standing and playing next to Tony Williams was pretty amazing. One of the things I learned about being a band leader from Tony was that he would never, ever tell me what to play or do.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Amazing
#Band
#Me
#Never
#Standing
The SynthAxe enables you to achieve a whole world of sonic textures that you cannot get with a guitar. There was nothing like it before and nothing like it since.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Achieve
#Cannot
#Guitar
#Nothing
#World
That's why I like the Steinberger guitars. They're easy to travel with... and they don't get messed up by the airlines.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Easy
#Messed Up
#Travel
#Up
#Why
I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Anything
#Enjoy
#Job
#Music
#Play
To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a specific form of music, while to me it's just the opposite.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Jazz
#Me
#Music
#Opposite
#People
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can't say I've written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Great
#Ideas
#Riding
#Say
#Thinking
My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It's like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don't have to wait for the end.
- Allan Holdsworth
#Communication
#Great
#Mind
#Music
#Wait
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