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"I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners."
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"Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip."
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"I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners."
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"Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent."
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"Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it."
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"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
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"I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack."
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"The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played."
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"I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment."
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"Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other."
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"I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power."
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"When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album."
People
"Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine."
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"I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs."
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"On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians."
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"I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker."
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