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I've never stopped learning.
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Stopped
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Altamont... I remember all of that. That was an awful day.
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Awful
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What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.
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Band
Strong
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If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago.
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Long Time Ago
Time Long Long Time
Apart
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The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues
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Inspired
Rhythm And Blues
Stones
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The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.
Mick Taylor / Musician
Inspired
Rhythm
Stones
American
Basically
Beatles
Blues
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These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.
Mick Taylor / Musician
Technology
Cds
Video
Cd
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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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Chords
Remember
Song
Songwriters
Beatles Songs
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It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show.
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Impossible
Hour
Minute
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Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea
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Ancestry
Ideas
Roots
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Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
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Ancestry
No Idea
Roots
African
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It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.
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Singing
Songwriting
Cd
Finally
Reflects
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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played
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Mother
Piano
Song
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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
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Lots
Instrument
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I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.
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Running
Ideas
Order
Good Idea
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I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
Mick Taylor / Musician
Pop Music
Shapes
Bought
Charts
Chord
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I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.
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Forever
Stones
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I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
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Book
Kind
Shapes
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I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.
Mick Taylor / Musician
California
Good Band
Returned
Tour
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I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
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Advise
Sacrifice
Anyway
Something Else
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I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
Mick Taylor / Musician
Becoming
Hendrix
Pleasure
Clapton
Eric Clapton
Influenced
Whom
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I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
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Friends
Becoming
Eric
Pleasure
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The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
Mick Taylor / Musician
Friends
Important
Intuition
Taste
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The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
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Instinct
Music Your Important
Aspirations
Tastes
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Similar
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I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
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Chance
Stage
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Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.
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Becoming
Female
Music Always Guitar
Male
Music Guitar People
Blues
Guitar Players
Meeting
More And More
Popular
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I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
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Home
Song
Writing
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Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.
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Guitar
People
Player
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I certainly want to get back to the US to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.
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New York
Country
Florida
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I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.
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Enjoyed
Florida
La
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It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released
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Cds
These Days
Years
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It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released.
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Finished
Frustrating
Time New Something
Cd
Released
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed
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America
Black
Musician
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
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Clubs
International
Scene
Blues
Musicians
Purely
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The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique
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Attitude
Musical Ability
Unique
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The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.
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Attitude
Musical
Stones
Unique
Different Kind
Joined
Realized
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The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
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Comeback
Gone Away
Groups
Needs
Pleasure
Stones
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I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.
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Familiar
Traditional
Music People Will
Album
Immediately
Popular
Released
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It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce
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Couple
Rubbish
Song
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It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.
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Credit
Decided
Had Enough
Rubbish
Bruce
Jack
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I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.
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Rhythm
Strict
Time Myself Me
Live Shows
Switch
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If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.
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Dedicated
Carry
Context
To Love
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If you've been playing for a few years...especially in a group context... you'll see if you have the ability ... or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to ...and you've got to love ..no matter what happens.
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Passion
Want
Years
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I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
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Good Music People
Ear
Harmonies
Suppose
Pick
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I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
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Listening To Others
People
Thinking
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