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"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."
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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 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 did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."
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"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords."
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"You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day."
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"I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of."
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"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."
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"By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band."
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"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."
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"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."
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"I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons."
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"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
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