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"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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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 still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."
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"It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier."
Love
"Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory."
Music
"Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics."
Favorite
"I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part."
Work
"There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from."
Mystery
"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
Musicians
"I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly."
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"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
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"Songs are life in 80 words or less."
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