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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

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I don’t feel I have to top myself at all.
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Competition Feeling Myself
I’m very fortunate because I love what I’m doing.
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Fortune Love Myself Work
I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.
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Angel Break Myself Wings
There’s music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you’re playing it or you’re receptive, as an audience.
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Affect Audience Live Music People Point Relate Yourself
I’m still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I’ve found that I’ve developed fears I never had before… fears of heights, claustrophobia only in cities, though, never in the country.
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Country Development Drink Fear Fly Myself Scare Terrify
You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.
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Finding Genius Goodness Yourself
I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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Classic Composition Future Music Myself Optimistic Rock
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
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Greatness Impossible Myself Promise
I don’t go walking into things blind.
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Blind Myself Walk
I will still carry on changing all the time.
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Carry Change Myself Time
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
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Believe Myself Work
I like change and I like contrast.
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Change Myself Preference
Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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Best Explode Expression Guitar Love Music Myself Tension Transformation World
There’s always music that moves me. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It’s usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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Different Genre Move Music Myself Necessary Reach
There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They’re very, very precious to me.
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Call Friendship Myself People Precious Reality
My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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Album Development Guitar Identity Myself Play Style
Crowley didn’t have a very high opinion of women, and I don’t think he was wrong.
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Himself Myself Opinion Woman Wrong
You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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Music Myself Race Time
I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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Day Oneself Situation
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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Army Build Composition Guitar Myself
I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.
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Deal Emotion Expectation Further Important Myself Side
I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.
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Far Journey Known Myself Play
I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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Album Feeling Myself Structure
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
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Band Photograph Portrait Record Time
From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.
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Amazing Classic Experiment Guitar Instrument Myself Sound Thinking
I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
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Guitar Myself Pick Play Technique Technology
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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Guitarist Identity Myself Personality Reputation

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

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