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Ronnie Montrose

"I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me."

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"I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me."

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"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"

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"I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things."

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"People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence."

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"Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room."

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"Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration."

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"There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear."

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"I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have."

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"I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing."
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"I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful."
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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."
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"I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for."
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"I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful."
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"It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music."
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"I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them."
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"I don't recall getting a first guitar."
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"Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power."
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"I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends."
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