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You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool. – John Fogerty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it. – Richard Burton Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. – Tom Petty Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupelo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957. – Roger McGuinn Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small. – Joan Baez Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. – Joan Baez Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. – Joan Baez Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence. – Joan Baez Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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