"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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"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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"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 will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out."

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"I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist."

Thought

"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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"When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out."

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"I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job."

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