“Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest…if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers. Then you'll know you're on to something!”

— Ted Nugent

[Denyer, Ralph, The Guitar Handbook, 2002, 66, 0-679-74275-1]

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American rock musician 1948

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