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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

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I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

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I also told John Hammond this, 20 years later - to his exquisite embarrassment - that he was like this incredible, overwhelming influence on me.

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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

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I don't like piano solos.

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I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

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I have no guitar technique.

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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

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It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

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My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

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Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan.

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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

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