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"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."
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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
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"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."
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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
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"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
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"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
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"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
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"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin."
Attention
"Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs."
Music
"I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great."
Love
"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."
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"I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song."
Music
"I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul."
Soul
"We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do."
Nothing
"You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song."
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"Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working."
Work
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