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"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."
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"What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory."
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"Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose."
Purpose
"After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written."
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"I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints."
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"The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry."
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"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."
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"I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good."
People
"While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977."
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"I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars."
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"I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
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"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."
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"A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House."
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"I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't."
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"That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size."
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