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- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
- Every Sunday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it stops being fun, stop.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
- Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
- Instruction
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I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're kind of defined by our mistakes.
- How
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By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
- Cemented
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
- Nov 07, 2020
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.
- Electric Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020