Rick Derringer Quotes

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• I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want…
• Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
• And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear…
• This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I…
• If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then…
• My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with…
• I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first…
• There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country…
• So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
• I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.
• I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
• I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.
• I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
• Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.
• It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
• We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the…
• In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots…
• Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and…
• For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me…
• I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted…

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