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"I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
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"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
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"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
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"Old is always fifteen years from now."
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"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits."
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"I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr."
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"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did."
People
"Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb."
Dumb
"I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos."
Music
"Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it."
Music
"The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why."
Challenge
"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."
Sun
"I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's."
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"Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed."
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"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys."
People
"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."
Guitar
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