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"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
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"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
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"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
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"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
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"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
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"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
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"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
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"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
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"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
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"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."
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"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
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"Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records."
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"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
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