Tommy Bolin quotes
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“I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.”
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“I'd rather work than not.”
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“If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.”
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“A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.”
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“I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.”
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“Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.”
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“I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.”
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“My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.”
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“You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.”
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“When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.”
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“I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.”
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“I don't like English bands. They're too structured.”
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“I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action.”
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“Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.”
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“My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.”
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“When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.”
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“I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.”
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“When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.”
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“Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.”
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“I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.”
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“When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.”
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“I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.”
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“Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.”
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“All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.”
-- Tommy Bolin
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