- Nov 07, 2020
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- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
- Healer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music became a healer for me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.
- Guitar Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
- Guitar Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.
- Greatest Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
- Muse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020