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"Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame."
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"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
"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."
"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."
"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that."
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