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"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living."
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."
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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"I'm not a good guitar player."
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"I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs."
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"Fortunately, I've never had a job."
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"I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great."
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"Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music."
Life
"It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love."
Love
"You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you."
Right
"I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!"
Being
"I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say."
People
"It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost."
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"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living."
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