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"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."
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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."

"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."

"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."

"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."

"I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place."

"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."

"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."
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"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."

"It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues."

"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."

"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."

"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
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