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As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself. |
As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent. |
As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you. |
Being worshipped is a horrible experience. |
But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. |
But when I come off stage, I do not want adulation, I do not want to be worshipped. |
Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that. |
Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that. |
From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes. |
Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from the world. |
How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know. |
I also know that I am not a great technician. |
I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupies is pathological. |
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. |