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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that’s the cardinal sin.
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Attention Sin Song
I think we’ve always been better live.
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Always Better Live Thinking
You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that’s great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don’t want to get in the way of the song.
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Crazy Emotional Song
I loved working with Bob Dylan.
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Bob Dylan Work
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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Feet Love Night
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won’t See Me from Rubber Soul.
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Holding On Rubber Soul
Fortunately, as we all know, it’s impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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Impossible Knows Sound
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
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Band Records Trying
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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Moving Song Trying
Sometimes you work with somebody you’ve never heard of because you just feel like working.
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Feels Heard Sometimes
I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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Sad Love Song Thinking
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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Couple Play Special
Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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Another Level Nelson
Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it’s probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it’s hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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Playing Thinking Trying

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

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