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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made."
First
"What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid."
People
"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
First
"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
Soul
"But I always loved songs with great lyrics."
Music
"My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45."
First
"One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from."
Will
"Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music."
Music
"Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."
People
"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
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