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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. "
Thoughts
Makeup
Music
" As far as the music goes, I like melody. "
Far
Goes
Melody
" Everything comes to an end. "
Everything
End
" Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things. "
Nature
You
Work
" I don't have to do Gregg Allman songs. "
Songs
" 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. "
You
Got
Today
" I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means. "
Poor
Your
Family
" I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo. "
Then
Ukulele
Playing
" I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time. "
Great
Time
Memories
" I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band. "
Question
Like
Say
" 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. "
Bluegrass
Berry
Cool
" I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers. "
Get
Your
You
" In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida. "
Rock
Playing
Guitar
" I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms. "
Feel
Like
Most
" It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels. "
People
Working
Together
" I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast. "
Pretty
Learned
Fast
" I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good. "
Happy
Sky
Blue
" I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player. "
Call
Myself
Jazz
" My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him. "
Ukulele
Daddy
Him
" 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. "
Me
Play
Night
" People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never. "
People
Moment
Heat
" Ramblin' was in my blood. "
Blood
" 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. "
Know
Moment
People
" Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion. "
Hell
Get
Blown
" When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts. "
Kid
Back
Construction
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