- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've demanded respect for myself and my band and my peers, I've demanded full artistic control for my music, I advocate for artists and music education wherever I can. And I'm a nice guy.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth of the matter is, things that feel spontaneous have a much longer life than things that have got a lot of burnt brain tissue to make them perfect.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what does it do besides talk about itself and sell postcards?
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were 3,000 people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the musical education would be so much better than this little elite thing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.
- Joker
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Joker' came out in '73, I finally got a viral hit. Every DJ who heard it played it.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out, just packed and full of really great musicians.
- Advice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to new artists is to forget about all of this and take acting and dancing lessons and become a video star.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was kind of a hipster, and a doctor.
- Les
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- Nov 07, 2020
Les Paul was my godfather.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of my dad.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar behind my head and do the splits in 1951 when I was nine.
- Began
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the minute I became aware of Jimmie Vaughan and his playing, he was one of my very favorites. So I made it my business to meet him and become friends with him - to work with him and record some of his material.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I never thought I would ever be able to make records and never really thought seriously about a musical career because a musical career was being Fabian or Frankie Avalon or something. It didn't make any sense. There wasn't any possibility to get into that world.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I was working in a nightclub that was being shaken down by the mafia and the police for payments. I mean, it was a real thug world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of standing on T-Bone Walker's shoulders, Les Paul's shoulders, Lightnin' Hopkins' shoulders, Muddy Waters' shoulders, you know? And if I've inspired other people, I'm pleased. That pleases me greatly.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, songs like 'Rock'n Me' were actually written to be played in large... for a hundred thousand people kind of gatherings. And a lot of what came out on 'Fly Like an Eagle' and 'Book of Dreams' was music that was put together to be played in big, big venues with big light shows.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what I wanted to do was play music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn't the country guys and it wasn't the white guys; it was the Blues guys. That's where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues has always been a huge part of my life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to entertain my audience. I know when then come and see me play, if I don't do 'Swing Town,' 'Jet Airliner,' 'Take the Money and Run,' 'True Fine Love,' 'Fly Like an Eagle,' 'The Joker,' blah blah blah - if I don't do all those songs, they'll be extremely disappointed. I love to do them.
- Guitar Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you mix it together, and that's my basic makeup.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It'd be really great to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mature. It's a good facility there in Cleveland. I like the museum a lot.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my own studio. I'm in it all the time.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll go out and we'll be playing in front of 15,000 people and say, 'Hey, we're going to do three new songs from something we just recorded' and 5,000 people get up and go get a hot dog and a beer and they don't come back until they hear the opening strings of 'The Joker' or 'Fly Like an Eagle.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me, but it does get old for me when my audience is just only interested in something they've already heard.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can walk into Tower Records, go get my box set, take out my Steve Miller credit card, and the clerk will look at me and go, 'Thanks, next.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You better believe I'm not a pop star.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love San Francisco.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall guys operate, it's like: 'Really?' It seems like they're total amateurs when it comes to doing shows and contracts.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people at Jazz at Lincoln Center are an amazing group and have done a phenomenal job teaching kids and audiences of all ages about jazz.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, or all of them? I think you have to pick all of them.
- Cheap
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always enjoyed Cheap Trick.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020