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"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."

"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."

"I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it."
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"Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat."

"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."

"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."

"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever."

"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."

"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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