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"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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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."
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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
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"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
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"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
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"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."
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"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."
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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."
Imagination
"Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that."
Work
"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
"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."
Sound
"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
"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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"Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame."
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