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There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.
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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
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I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
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This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.
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I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
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I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
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I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.
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I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
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I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.
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I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I will still carry on changing all the time.
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