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"I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
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"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."
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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."
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"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."
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"I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's."
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"Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed."
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"I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten."
God
"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
Guitar
"To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box."
Music
"The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why."
Challenge
"Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb."
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"The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of."
People
"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music."
Movies
"Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something."
Road
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