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"I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there."
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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
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"I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it."
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"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."
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"I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise."
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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."
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"Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes."
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"I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician."
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"I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well."
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"I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library."
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"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."
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"It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes."
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"You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place."
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"It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best."
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