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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Instrument
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
- Crushing
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- Nov 07, 2020