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To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

Scott Ian

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Scott Ian
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
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Jamaica
Queens
Tool
Anymore
Gonna
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I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
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At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.
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A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
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When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
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I find it much easier to write comic-books than lyrics actually because it's a natural dialogue. Writing song lyrics is not natural but over the years I know what I need to know to get it done. I find it quite easy to capture a character and use my own personality and humour.
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What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.
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My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
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The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.
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I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
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I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
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Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
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To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.
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What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great.
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I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.
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I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
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Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal.
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I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.
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If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.
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I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.
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Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
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