{"id":2688,"date":"2010-11-17T19:54:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/acousticsnapshots\/?p=81"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:23:08","slug":"song-writers-and-guitar-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/friends\/tommyemmanuelinterviews\/song-writers-and-guitar-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Writers and Guitar Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Song Writers and Guitar Players\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNwGm_W0tP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(Strumming the guitar)<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah beautiful<br \/>\nTommy: Bill his one of the big easy&#8230; Billie Joe&#8230;<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah his song<br \/>\nTommy: His song was incredible<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah!<br \/>\nTommy: You know I was teaching the workshop the other day and people were asking me; which guitar players you listen to? And I said I hardly listen to any guitar players I&#8217;m more interested in people who&#8217;s music moves the world you know, that&#8217;s what I wanna follow. I&#8217;m not interested in group of young people who are playing in that kind and trying to impress there neighbors&#8230;<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nTommy: I&#8217;m interested in moving the world that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m interested in and I know I can do it if I get it right you know co&#8217;z he done it Billie Joe, or Stevie Wonder those guys  what they write songs, their song speaks to their soul and their heart so deeply and that&#8217;s were I&#8217;m interested in. If I wanna listen to a guitar player that really fires me up I always put on Django. Django is the one, no one can top him nobody you know Django does it for me everytime<br \/>\nMatt: Is there a modern music that captures you?<br \/>\nTommy: Oh I love Joe Satriani&#8217;s music<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nTommy: Absolutely John Mayer&#8217;s music at least everybody really<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nTommy: But I don&#8217;t listen to things that don&#8217;t move me if I listen to it and it does nothing to me I just switch it off immediately<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nTommy: Co&#8217;z I don&#8217;t wanna waste my time<br \/>\nMatt: Do you ever write song to other people?<br \/>\nTommy: Yes! absolutely I written songs to Olivia Newton-John, Shiela Easton, Doug Neidt&#8217;s record one of my songs and I&#8217;m constantly try to write songs that maybe other people might be interested in&#8230;that&#8217;s why my song a s a guitar player is different because I&#8217;m not thinking like a guitar player I&#8217;m thinking what a good song for a singer and he got to be able to sing those melodies you know&#8230;<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nTommy: (Strumming the guitar)&#8230;.dada&#8230;. dadaaa&#8230;. 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