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"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."
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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 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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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
Play
"Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last."
Music
"You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way."
Music
"I always felt people should live with animals."
People
"You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation."
Fish
"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."
Sound
"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
Father
"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."
Love
"Every song is like a painting."
Painting
"My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge."
Philosophy
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