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"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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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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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."
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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"I'm not a good guitar player."
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"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."
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"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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"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."
Dream
"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
Sympathy
"From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto."
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"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."
Folk
"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."
Music
"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."
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"When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some."
End
"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."
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