Tommy Bolin Quotes

• If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

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  Diversión, Divertirse, Si

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• I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

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  Trying, Steps, Used

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• Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

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  Form, Solo, Teach

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• A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

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  Wish, Impatient

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• I can't do anything but play guitar.

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  Guitar, Play, I Can

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• I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

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  Play, Subconscious, Knows

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• You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

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  Piano, Strings, Fingers

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• Entré con una perspectiva completamente nueva. Yo escribía canciones y ellos elegían temas que creían que estaban en la onda Purple.

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  Song, Writing, Purple

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• My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

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  School, Musician, My Family

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• When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

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  Mother, School, Hair

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• Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

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  Moving, Moments, Embarrassing

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• Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.

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  Canción, Creer, Escribir

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• I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

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  Banda

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• I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action.

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  Home, Play, Helping

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• My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

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  Fall, Joints, Firsts

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• When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

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  Mind, East, Midwest

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• I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

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  Working Together, Band, Records

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• When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

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  Writing, Opportunity, Play

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• When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

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  Purple, My Own

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• I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

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  Thinking, Guitar, Play

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• I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

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  Player, Style, Different

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• The best money I made was panhandling.

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  Made, Best Money

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• I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.

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  Blow, Simple, Bars

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• I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

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  Doctors, Voice, Week

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• I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

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  Notes, Chords, My Own

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