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"The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that."
Money
"Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame."
Fame
"I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it."
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"The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957."
First
"Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff."
Experience
"Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that."
Work
"Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them."
Music
"I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village."
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"But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there."
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