"There was nobody at the time who was……" — Rick Derringer
"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 blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer."
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22 Quotes by Rick Derringer
Rick Derringer has 22 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
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And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at…
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This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of…
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If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that…
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of…
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I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and…
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So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you…
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I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.
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I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
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I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.
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I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for…
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More Acoustic Quotes
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one of 146 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
— Kevin Bacon
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and…
— Lester Bangs
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just…
— Travis Barker
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
— Eric Clapton
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year.…
— Eric Clapton
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
— Ian Anderson
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk…
— Ian Anderson
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Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of…
— Jacques Loeb
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit…
— Andy Gibb
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There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy…
— Michael Martin Murphey
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