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"Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power."

"I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion."

"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."

"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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