I believe I was ahead of my time.

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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

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I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

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Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.

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In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

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I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

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