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Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
There's a bad moon on the rise.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Four guys from England took us all by the hand.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival