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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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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
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"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with."
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"I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs."
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"For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion."
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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing."
Life
"When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing."
Fun
"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."
Feelings
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."
Career
"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."
Music
"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy."
Body
"The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted."
Work
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."
Music
"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."
Time
"And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street."
People
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