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I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get a little wave action going, I love that feeling.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I open all my concerts with 'My Back Pages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing.

Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I love awards, especially if I get them!

Ben Gazzara  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

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