American - Musician | December 22, 1948 -
Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.
Rick Nielsen
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I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' and that was the last guitar lesson that I ever took, so I taught myself what I wanted to know.
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When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.
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Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff... what is this?' It was a new kind of music.
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Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people.
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Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.
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Playing it safe isn't fun; you have to take a chance.
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I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.
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We played with Rush somewhere way early in our career.
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I like Harvey Mandel.
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I don't know any American rock bands.
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We all record together. We do it live; then, after that, we do overdubs, if we need to, to repair stuff. Usually when we do stuff, we have to make sure we get the bass and drums down, and by doing it live, you're actually playing the song. You're not piecing together a song.
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