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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."

"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"

"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."

"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."

"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."

"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."

"The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great."

"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."
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"As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that."

"Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt."

"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."

"You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation."

"You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way."

"My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge."
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