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Rick Derringer

"We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do."

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"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."

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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

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"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."

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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath."

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

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"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."

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"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."

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Rick Derringer
"The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it."

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Rick Derringer
"There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer."

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Rick Derringer
"I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work."

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Rick Derringer
"We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do."

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Rick Derringer
"I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people."

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Rick Derringer
"Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted."

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Rick Derringer
"I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz."

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Rick Derringer
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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Rick Derringer
"My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda."

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Rick Derringer
"I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business."

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