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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 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."
Holly
"Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records."
Time
"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
Home
"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
People
"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."
Tax
"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
Experience
"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."
Fight
"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."
Tax
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
Punk
"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
Music
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