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"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."
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"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."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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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 still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."
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"There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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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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"The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown."
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"I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found."
Truth
"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."
Animals
"I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice."
Frontline
"Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement."
Change
"I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over."
Music
"When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film."
Music
"Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic."
Music
"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."
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"The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan."
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"The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically."
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