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• I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

  John Fogerty

  Might, Missions, Energetic

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• I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

  John Fogerty

  Kids, Years, Break Through

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• In those days, I didn't know how guys like Clapton and Beck were getting that searing blues lead sound, so I developed my style to be rhythmic and chord-based, with simple lead lines that you could almost hum.

  John Fogerty

  Simple, Guy, Style

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• The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

  John Fogerty

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

  John Fogerty

  Thinking, Idols, Shoes

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• Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

  John Fogerty

  Stealing, Controversy

  Song: Vanz Kant Danz

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• I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

  John Fogerty

  Musician, Wanted

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• Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

  John Fogerty

  Surfing, Done, Magazines

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• I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

  John Fogerty

  Stay Strong, Real, Cutting

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• That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Player, Good Man

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• It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.

  John Fogerty

  Fun, Past, Rocks

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• When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!

  John Fogerty

  Suicide, Block, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Past, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

  John Fogerty

  Dog, Heart, Men

  Song: I Saw It On T.V, Album: Centerfield

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• What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers' money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people [in the song], too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Long, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

  John Fogerty

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

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• I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

  John Fogerty

  Years, People, Elements

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• I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Equipment, Old Song

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• When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

  John Fogerty

  Moon, Errors, Blue

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• My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

  John Fogerty

  Son, Hockey, Men

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• I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

  John Fogerty

  Cheating, Cutting, Thinking

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• There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

  John Fogerty

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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• You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

  John Fogerty

  Evil, Misogyny, Evil Women

  Song: Evil Thing

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