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"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
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"You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed."

"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."

"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."

"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."

"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."

"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
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"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music."

"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."

"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."

"Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister."

"First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on."

"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show."
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