"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."

People, Guitar, Open

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"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

Audience, Audiences, Balance

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

Bravery, Guitar, Heroism, Insanity

"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."

Drugs, Kids, Reason, Smoking

"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."

Cheating, Compromise

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

Artist, Artists, Entertainment, First, Thinking

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

Music, Songs, Writing

"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

Marcel Proust, French Author

People, Pleasure, Will

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."

"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."

"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."

"It's amazing what some people read into songs."

"I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."