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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."
"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
"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."
"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
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