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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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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
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I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
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There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
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When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.
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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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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.
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Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
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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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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
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Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
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I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
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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've still got a twinkle in me.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.