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Rory Gallagher
Profession : Musician
Birth : March 2, 1948
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I won't squander my credibility, whatever that is, just for one silly song.
Rory Gallagher
The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul.
Rory Gallagher
I've never commercialized my music. I've seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer.
Rory Gallagher
I was just fascinated by the blues.
Rory Gallagher
I've had too many opportunities to sell out.
Rory Gallagher
Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and know that your feelings aren't controlled by the controls of your guitar.
Rory Gallagher
I didn't grow up working on 24-track - the first two Taste albums were eight-track and we always had tracks left over - we couldn't believe it, either!
Rory Gallagher
I enjoy some nights in the studio. I'm not the greatest person in an enclosed space; I'm a live player by birth - like a gypsy folk player, I just sit in the corner and play.
Rory Gallagher
I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of people I respect have done it with a real little 'ditty' and that was the end of it - that was all they were ever known for.
Rory Gallagher
I think rock should always stay a little bit outside the pale; I think it should remain a little bit dangerous - a little bit ornery, as the Americans say.
Rory Gallagher
Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.
Rory Gallagher
After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.
Rory Gallagher
If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.
Rory Gallagher
A lot of the time I use slide tuning for rhythm parts. I play a lot of slide in regular tuning as well as open tunings. I'm still mad about slide, there are so many ways of progressing on it.
Rory Gallagher
You can play slide on any guitar, but to be serious about it you have a tough set of strings, otherwise you don't get the full attack - you can't dig in.
Rory Gallagher
In my opinion, the P-90 is the best pickup for slide - it has the right overtones.
Rory Gallagher
The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of American folk songs that were probably on the edge of blues. After that was Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry songs. And then I heard Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Big Bill Broonzy on the radio.
Rory Gallagher
I'm a great listener - I play records all the time at home. And I play guitar as a hobby. So inspiration has never been a big problem for me, but motivation can be a bit difficult sometimes.
Rory Gallagher
There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.
Rory Gallagher
As a kid, I loved any guitarists, whether it was Elvis Presley, Lonnie Donegan, Chuck Berry or even the cowboy guitarists like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. The image of the guitar appealed to me.
Rory Gallagher
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