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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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"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
"I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds."
"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."
"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."
"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."
"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."
"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."
"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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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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