24 MAY 06
Choosing a Caption
1. "It's a place on the map. Way up high, at the top. It shows up a lot in my dreams. It's green. It's a place between places. But we can drive there from here."
2. "From the beginning I questioned whether guitars should be made of soft material or of a dense, hard material that would make the string do everything it was supposed to do, thereby excluding uninvited guests to the sound. First, I took a steel railroad track and strung a string along it. Underneath I put the receiver part of the telephone and hooked it up to the radio. That was how I found the sound I was dreaming of."
3. "What led. Is it fog?"
4. "Next I tried a four-by-four plank with a string stretched on it. That was the very first time I made a solid body guitar. The first time I brought it onstage, I took it to a tavern in Queens. People looked at me like I was nuts. So after that I fastened two sides on it, to make it look more like a guitar, and they applauded. I realized then that many people hear with their eyes."
5. "Let me say one other thing. The images you are seeing, you are seeing over and over and over. It's the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase. And you see it 20 times and you think, My goodness, were there that many vases? Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?"
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