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"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
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"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one."
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"Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally."

"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played."

"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."

"I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!"
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"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."


"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."


"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."


"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."


"I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons."


"I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there."


"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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