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"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."
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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."
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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."


"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."


"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."


"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."


"I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons."


"I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there."


"By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band."


"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."
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