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Johnny Rivers

"I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

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Akiroq Brost

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

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Akiroq Brost

"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."

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Akiroq Brost

"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."

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Akiroq Brost

"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."

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Akiroq Brost

"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"

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Akiroq Brost

"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really."

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Akiroq Brost

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

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Akiroq Brost

"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."

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Johnny Rivers
"In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made."

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Johnny Rivers
"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."

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Johnny Rivers
"After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive."

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Johnny Rivers
"What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid."

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Johnny Rivers
"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."

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Johnny Rivers
"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."

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Johnny Rivers
"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."

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Johnny Rivers
"But I always loved songs with great lyrics."

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Johnny Rivers
"My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45."

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Johnny Rivers
"The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed."

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