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"I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid."
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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"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."
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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"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."
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"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."
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"Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time."
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"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."
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"Dylan can do no wrong."
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"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."
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"My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think."
Father
"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
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"I'm not a big jazz fan."
Jazz
"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
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"I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously."
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"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."
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