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

"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."

"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."

"Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in."
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"Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt."

"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."

"You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way."

"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."

"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."

"I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw."

"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
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