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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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"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."
"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."
"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
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"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."
"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."
"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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