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Ken Hensley

"If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that."

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"If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that."

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"People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!"
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"The past has infinite value if one learns from it."
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"All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be."
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"THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn."
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"When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!"
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"I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!"
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"When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included."
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"I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much."
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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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