Roger McGuinn Quotes

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• ...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared…
• ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he…
• ...it's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!..
• Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
• I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on…
• But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to…
• Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
• Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant.…
• I don't really collect guitars.
• Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
• The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
• Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to…
• If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.
• He blew his mind out in a caaaar.
• How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?
• The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise…
• I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because…
• I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is…
• The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.
• I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

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