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It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.
Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.
I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.
I worked with Chris Squire on a Greg Lake record in the early '80s, worked with Alan White.
My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
I think the guy who tells you he knows about music is really dumb, or he's lying to himself.
So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.
The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.
Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.
My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.
I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.
I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.
The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.
I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.
I think I've probably had one of my guitars on display at every Hard Rock Cafe in the world.
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.
We have always been like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in that we have numerous lead singers.
Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.
We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'
I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.
My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.
Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...
I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.
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