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"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
"I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."
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"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
"It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen."
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