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"Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame."
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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."
"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."
"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."
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"Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff."
"I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village."
"Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that."
"Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that."
"I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it."
"But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there."
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