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"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."
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"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys."
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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
Sound
"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
"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
"The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why."
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"Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it."
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"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did."
People
"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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"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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"A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"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."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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