Mick Taylor Quotes

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• The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as…
• I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.
• Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are…
• I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there.…
• I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
• I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage.…
• I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have…
• What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up
• If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want…
• The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially…
• These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms
• The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just…
• It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole…
• The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues
• It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now…
• I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played
• Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea
• The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a…
• I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
• I've never stopped learning.

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