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" Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything. "

Buzz Osborne

Everything

Guitar

Influence

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" I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again. "

" We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't need the 50th generation version of it. "

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" I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me. "

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" All teens are in trouble in one form or another. "

" If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human. "

" The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard. "

" We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time. "

" I've always been a huge Butthole Surfers fan. The first time I saw them was in the early '80s when all they had out was their first EP. I thought they were amazing. They've always been a huge influence and one of my all-time favorite bands. "

" I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later. "

" It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work. "

" I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now. "

" The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time. "

" If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about. "

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People

Seriously

" I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive. "

" By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing. "

" I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer. "

Buzz Osborne

Doer

Complainer

" I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people. "

" I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows. "

" I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock. "

" I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people. "

" I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case. "

" If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four? "

" The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before. "

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My Life

Done