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"My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."
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"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."
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"I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time."
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"My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45."
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"Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."
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"In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made."
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"I think my favorite album was probably Realization."
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"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
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"But I always loved songs with great lyrics."
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"One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from."
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"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
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