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Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

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I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

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I never really followed grunge.

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After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

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By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

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I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

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The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

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I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

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Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

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My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

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I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

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Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

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I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else.

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I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

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