Original sentence: " [] Phil has also said, "Someone told me years ago that when asked that question he replied, 'Phil Keaggy is the shortest guitarist in the world,' which is more believable.A recent variant has it that it was Eddie Van Halen on Letterman or with Barbara Walters who was asked the question.I think it’s just a rumor that someone’s kept alive, and it must be titillating enough to keep an interest there...I’ll never be in the category of Jimi Hendrix, and I couldn’t understand him saying something like that, anyway, even after all these years.Keaggy has long insisted that such stories are completely unfounded and there has been no tangible evidence to confirm the accounts: "it was impossible that Jimi Hendrix could ever have heard me and would never have said anything about a guy who, at the time, was only nineteen years old.Occasionally the story has the setting for the question being the Dick Cavett show.So I don’t think it was said…and that’s it for that
Edited sentence: " [] Despite having to frequently address the story, Phil has managed to keep a humorous perspective about the rumor: "Someone told me years ago that when asked that question he replied, 'Phil Keaggy is the shortest guitarist in the world,' which is more believable.A more recent variant has Eddie Van Halen being asked the question by either Letterman or Barbara Walters.I think it’s just a rumor that someone’s kept alive, and it must be titillating enough to keep an interest there...So I don’t think it was said…and that’s it for that.Keaggy has long insisted that such stories are completely unfounded and there is been no tangible evidence to confirm the accounts: "it was impossible that Jimi Hendrix could ever have heard me and would never have said anything about a guy who, at the time, was only nineteen years old.Occasionally the story has the setting for the question being the Dick Cavett Show