American - Musician | December 12, 1943 -
I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't cool. We was rock n' rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.
Dickey Betts
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.
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I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.
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'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
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Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.
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It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.
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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
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Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
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As far as the music goes, I like melody.
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If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.
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People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.
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