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Richard Thompson

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

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

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
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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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"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."
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"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."
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"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."
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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
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"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there."
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"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
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