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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating."

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music."

"Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister."

"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."

"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."

"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."

"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show."

"First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on."

"When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with."

"I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians."
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