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"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following."
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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."

"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."

"We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me."

"There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time."

"Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then."

"Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology."

"But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him."
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