Quotes by Gary Clark, Jr. - Page 1

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Obsessed
Pedals
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Guy
Kind
Laid Back
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Somewhat
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You're gonna know my name by the end of the night.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Ends
Names
Night
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Ads
Campaigns
Expected
Ad
Ad Campaign
Campaign
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Austin
Different
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I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Believe
Competition
Don't Believe
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Expressive
Guitar
Range
Thinking
Touch
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Aggressive
Driven
Guitar
Song
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I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Causes
Nervous
Public Speaking
Scared
School
Cause
Failed
Grade
Grade School
Speaking
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Black
Oppression
Rights
Sound
Male
Blues
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Clubs
Growing Up
Guy
Night
Older Guys
Blues
Hang
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
People
Schizophrenic
Thinking
Cool Thing
Musically
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I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Draws
Inspired
People
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Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
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All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Can Do
Know How
Knows
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Done
Guitar
Nervous
Thinking
Microphone
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Artist
Input
Needs
I Am Me Way
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Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Goes On
People
Song
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Band
Guy
Instruments
Sentimental
Me Everything Something
Sell
Hang
Onto
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Festivals
People
Thinking
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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Bummer
Time Good Music
Complete
Festival
Good Time
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Capable
Feel Good
Guitar
Moving
Musician
Chops
Express
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Guitar
Hip Hop
Ramones
Sublime
Nirvana
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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. Its cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. Its not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Foundation
Grows
Relevant
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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Cool
Foundation
Grows
Relevant
Cool Music Always
Anywhere
Blues
Off
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Music
Mom
Bass
Play
Said
Should Have
Wanted
Drums
Plan
Play Drums
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I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Play
Rocks
Who I Am
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I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot." It always made sense to me to adapt the flow and roll with whatever the situation is and to not think about it too much and get caught up in it. It works easier for me that way.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Thinking
Too Much
Water
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I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.
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Hurt
Player
Sorry
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I opened up my mind as far as playing music. I was at a Cody Chesnutt concert a few years ago, and a friend introduced me to him. We just started talking about music, and he asked me what I did. I said, "I have these songs and I'm kind of nervous to put them out, because I've just kind of been playing blues stuff, and playing other people's songs." He said, "You should just put them out there, man. Why not? It's just gonna bother you if you don't. The easiest thing to do is to just let it go." So I just took that with me.
Gary Clark, Jr. / Guitarist
Men
Mind
Song
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