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8 quotes by Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas Gary Lucas in Ogunquit, Maine, June 2014. Background information Origin Syracuse, New York, United States Genres Various (blues, jazz, psychedelic rock, Chinese) Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, record producer, film score, composer, lecturer, master class teacher Instruments Guitar, vocal Years active 1970s to present Labels Knitting Factory Records Associated acts Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart, and many others Website...
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts -... →

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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical... →

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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn... →

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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is... →

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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I... →

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