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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
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"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
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"I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians."
Work
"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."
Time
"One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it."
Night
"You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that."
People
"Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there."
People
"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
Guitar
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."
Career
"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."
Feelings
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."
Music
"When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us."
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