Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
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The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
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I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
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Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
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If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
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