"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."

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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."

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"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

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"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."

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"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

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"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

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"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."

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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

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"I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial."

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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."

"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."

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"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

"I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years."

"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."

"I'm playin' the music I like."

"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."

"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

"I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial."