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• ‟ I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.

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• ‟ I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.

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• ‟ I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

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• ‟ I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.

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• ‟ For a couple of years, I'd work from 6 to 11 P.M., then 1 to 5 A.M., and then got up and tried to go to school. That was pretty rough, but I got a lot of experience playing music.

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• ‟ I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

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• ‟ I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.

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• ‟ I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.

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• ‟ My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

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