John Fogerty Quotes - Page 2

• Ahora tengo mucha más energía; podría decirse que la actuación en directo es mi misión.

  John Fogerty

  Might, Missions, Energetic

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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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• Soy como un chaval de veintidós años en un grupo nuevo que intenta hacerse notar y abrirse camino, porque la inmensa mayoría de la gente nunca me ha visto tocar en directo.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Rocas, Rock And Roll, Gente

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• On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

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  Eye, Zombie, Musician

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• Aunque James Burton era mi ídolo, entonces no creía que pudiera llevar sus zapatos.

  John Fogerty

  Thinking, Idols, Shoes

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• Ahora que soy mayor, me gusta casi todo lo que se hace bien, incluso la música surf y los instrumentales; disfruté mucho con las entrevistas a los Ventures en vuestra revista.

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  Surfing, Done, Magazines

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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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• Pensaba que lo que se me daba bien era tocar licks de guitarra muy sencillos, ya que me había curtido con lo que hacía Duane Eddy; licks sencillos pero con fuerza.

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  Stay Strong, Real, Cutting

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• Parecía como si todos los discos que he hecho desde Creedence Clearwater Revival se hubieran salido del centro. Me sentía como si estuviera bailando alrededor de las afueras de lo que es mi verdadero centro. Con este disco, quería mantenerme en el centro, justo donde está el rock and roll. Quería que fuera más fácil, mucho más divertido que algunos de mis discos anteriores.

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  Fun, Past, Rocks

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

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  Song, Player, Good Man

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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

  Canción, Real, Pensamiento

  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

  Canción, Pasado, Gente

  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

  Perro, Corazón, Hombres

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

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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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• 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

  Canción, Real, Escritura

  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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• You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

  John Fogerty

  Evil, Misogyny, Evil Women

  Song: Evil Thing

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• Hoy en día no hay muchos músicos que toquen así; muchos guitarristas de steel se conectan a pedaleras e intentan sonar como Jeff Beck con una steel guitar.

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  Player, Guitar, Guy

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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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• Me quedé con ese tamaño porque podía doblar las cuerdas tan bien, y en algún lugar a lo largo de la línea que debo haber metido en mi mente que tenía las manos pequeñas, así que estaba pensando que nunca sería capaz de tocar una guitarra a gran escala, pero también sentí que estaba engañando o cortar las esquinas.

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  Cheating, Cutting, Thinking

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• Cuando hice Blue Moon Swamp, hubo mucho de ensayo y error; intentaba encontrar gente que simpatizara con mi estilo y con lo que tenía en mente para el álbum.

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  Moon, Errors, Blue

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