“I recognized my own creative voice filtered through those six strings, but it was also something else entirely. Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.”

—  Slash (musician) , book Slash

Source: Slash (2007) by Anthony Bozza & Mason Segal,, p. 29

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