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I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is aching, my back is breaking, feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.
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You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
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I try all night to play a pretty note.
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Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye...
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Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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I try to use my music to move these people to act.
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.
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The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.
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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
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You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.
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I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
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.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways
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Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love...
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Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
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The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.
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You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.
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... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child
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If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.
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I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.
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We gotta stop smoking, stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.
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