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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.
Mick Taylor
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What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.
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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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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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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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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.
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These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.
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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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If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago.
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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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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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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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Altamont... I remember all of that. That was an awful day.
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