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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Roger McGuinn

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" 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. "

" 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. "

Roger McGuinn

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Sea

" People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing. "

Roger McGuinn

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" That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs. "

Roger McGuinn

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Best

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Roger McGuinn

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Early

" The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition. "

" You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really want to get involved in that. It's an endless argument, a 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' kind of argument. "

" 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. "

" I don't really collect guitars. "

" The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957. "

" When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there. "

" I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record. "

" Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that. "

Roger McGuinn

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" I'm not attracted to expensive things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. "

" 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. "

" I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money. "

" The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more. "