"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."

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"I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers."

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"We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it."

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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"

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"Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band."

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"When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that."

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"Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why."

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"I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know."

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"I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people."

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"Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs."

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"I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd."

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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