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Dick Dale

"Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is."

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"Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is."

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Amber Hurdle

"Drugs made me feel more normal."

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"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

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"The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it, but I didn't. I just gave him some drugs.""You gave an addict in rehab drugs, and you want credit for it?""Of course it sounds bad when you put it that way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."

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Amber Hurdle

"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs."

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"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever."

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"In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle."

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Amber Hurdle

"Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in."

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"My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge."
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"Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer."
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