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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."
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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"I'm not a good guitar player."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that."
Being
"I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody."
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"It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group."
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"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
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"People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!"
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"The past has infinite value if one learns from it."
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"I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am."
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"All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be."
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"THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn."
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