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"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."
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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."
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"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."
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"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."
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"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."
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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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"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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"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
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"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth."
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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
Kids
"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."
People
"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."
First
"I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was."
Hair
"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
Mom
"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
First
"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
Now
"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
Son
"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."
Boys
"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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