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"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."

"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."

"When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists."

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

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

"What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid."

"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."

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