Jorma Kaukonen Quotes

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• We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.
• I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I…
• The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
• With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is…
• I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in…
• We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become…
• I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:…
• Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim…
• ...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right,…
• ... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ...…
• If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

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