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Johnny Rivers

"When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists."

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"When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists."

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"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."

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"I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work."

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"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

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"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."

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"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."

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"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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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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"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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"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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"Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music."
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"The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game."
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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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"My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45."
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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 after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
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"The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed."
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