The Guess Who Quotes
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There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
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You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
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It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.