Dickey Betts Quotes

Dickey Betts

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 12, 1943

'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.

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Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.

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It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.

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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

Dickey Betts

If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.

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Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.

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I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

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In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.

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Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

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I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.

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Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

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I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.

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My guitar has, like, become part of me, you know.

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When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

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