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But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

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Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

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You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

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Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

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You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

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When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

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If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 7th, 1949

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