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" But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. "
People
Down
Village
" I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village. "
Always
Got
Sound
" I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore. "
Bible
Day
Wife
" I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds. "
Doing
Flame
Long
" I don't really collect guitars. "
Guitars
Really
Collect
" I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money. "
Kind
Money
Road
" I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s. "
Up
Computers
Early
" I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball. "
Ball
Play
Travel
" I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get a little wave action going, I love that feeling. "
Me
Love
Sea
" I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD. "
Home
Fan
You
" I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory. "
Good
Memory
Happy
" I'm not attracted to expensive things. "
Attracted
Things
Expensive
" I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn. "
Meet
Concerts
You
" I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it. "
Play
Songs
Finger
" I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really. "
Lead
Back
Guitar
" I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight. "
Good
Internet
Business
" I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word 'blue' in them, or whatever they wanted to do. "
Play
Late
Think
" I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things. "
Stand Up
Music
Think
" I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time. "
Depression
Think
Stand
" I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud. "
Always
Singer
Loud
" I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing. "
Music
Loved
School
" I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint. "
Solar
Day
Every Day
" I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing. "
Looking
Morning
Style
" I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. "
Songs
School
Back
" Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. "
Guitar
Roll
Rock
" My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing. "
Everything
Bass
You
" No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear. "
Sense
Play
Guitar
" Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. "
Help
Now
Know
" Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them. "
Them
Sometimes
Song
" One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time... around 1960 or so. "
Way
Almost
Before
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