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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
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"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
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"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
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"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."
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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
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"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."
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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
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"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."
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"I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's."
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"Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed."
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"I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten."
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"Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene."
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"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys."
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"I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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"To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box."
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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
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"A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy."
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