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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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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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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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"Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame."
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"No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore."
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"The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given."
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"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
England
"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."
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"It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation."
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"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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"I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture."
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"Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words."
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"I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience."
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