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"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."
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"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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"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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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
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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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"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit."
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
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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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"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."
Mind
"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."
Music
"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."
Mistake
"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
Day
"I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there."
Being
"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."
Music
"You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day."
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"When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs."
Sister
"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
Guitar
"When it stops being fun, stop."
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