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Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
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I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.
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I loved working with Bob Dylan.
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