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"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
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"The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name."

"I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first."

"The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does."

"There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned."

"First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that."

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."

"Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not."
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"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

"I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time."

"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."

"Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music."

"One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from."

"In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made."

"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
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