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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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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 can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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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 never want to fake it. That's my whole thing."
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"But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."
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"I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point."
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"There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was."
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"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."
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"There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned."
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"I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so."
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"If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music."
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