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"I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out."
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"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
"When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer."
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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow."
"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."
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"Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar."
"I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed."
"When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible."
"It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like."
"The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment."
"The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up."
"I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers."
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