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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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"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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"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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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords."
Time
"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."
Success
"We're kind of defined by our mistakes."
Mistake
"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
Guitar
"It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time."
Music
"When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs."
Sister
"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
Life
"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."
Music
"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
Sound
"I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there."
Being
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