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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

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Nature

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

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Time

Name

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

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Shame

Writing

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

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Guitar

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

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Old

Woman

I hate show business.

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Business

Hate

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

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Holly

Play

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.