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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."
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"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."
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"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"The guitar chose me."
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"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."
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"I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard."
Family
"It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open."
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"I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything."
Love
"Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism."
Culture
"Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality."
People
"I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way."
Hope
"I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to."
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"I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism."
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"If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure."
Music
"Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time."
Time
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