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"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."

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

"Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers."

"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."

"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

"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."

"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."

"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
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"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross."


"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."


"That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it."


"God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it."


"Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records."


"I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child."


"There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players."


"I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms."


"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist."
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