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I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.
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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
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If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.
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Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
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Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
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My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
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Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.
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Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
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Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
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One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
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Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
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Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire, that energy that we have to have.
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Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
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Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
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Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
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Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me.
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Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
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That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
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That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
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