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I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

~John Fogerty

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I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

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I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

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I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

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I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

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I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

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I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

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I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

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I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

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Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 28th, 1945

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