Steve Young Quotes - Page 2

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• My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

  Steve Young

  Self, Style, Eccentric

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

  Steve Young

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

  Steve Young

  Redneck, Woody, Enough

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I'm playing a D-28 Martin that I've had about 20 years or so. I've got a '51 Martin and I thought I shouldn't be taking this on the road. So I went down to Gruhn Guitars in Nashville and kind of traded around and ended up with this one. This guitar sounded pretty good as new guitar.

  Steve Young

  Guitar, Nashville, Years

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• 51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

  Steve Young

  Guitar, Levels

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

  Steve Young

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

  Steve Young

  Guitar, Gallagher

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?

  Steve Young

  Guitar, Lazy, Nylon

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

  Steve Young

  Views, Different, Drummer

  Steve Young Interview, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

  Steve Young

  Sometimes, Religion And Politics, Dangerous

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• I always had a hard time with Nashville. I reluctantly live there. I've mellowed, and it's improved some, in the fact it has more immigrants. There's some real Mexicans there, some folks from India, some of this and that. I'm not satisfied at all with living there. It's a dilemma for me.

  Steve Young

  Real, Hard Times, Nashville

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

  Steve Young

  Guitar, Ideas, Quality

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

  Steve Young

  Attitude, Self, Care

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

  Steve Young

  Rocks, Done, Records

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

  Steve Young

  People, Drug, Age

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.

  Steve Young

  Nashville, Roots, Rocks

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

  Steve Young

  Song, Boys, Guitar

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

  Steve Young

  Mother, Guitar, Body

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Josh Graves laid down the dobro on that song [The White Trash Song] and he was hot. We went on the road together and we'd get drunker'n hell every night! I haven't had a drink since November, 1979. And I like it.

  Steve Young

  Song, Night, White

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

  Steve Young

  Piano, Piano Playing, Guitar

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• When was about 16 or 17, I was living in Beaumont, Texas and Carlos Montoya came to Lamar College. I went to see him and I didn't know what flamenco was. But when I saw him play, I was blown away that one man on one instrument could make all that sound. I'd learned a lot, but that made a big impact. I had intuition for it. In about three years I learned most of what I know now.

  Steve Young

  College, Men, Years

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day sitting in class and it just came to me how the neck worked. I was enlightened to the scales, and the runs. I just saw it and thought; now I understand it!

  Steve Young

  Running, Texas, Guitar

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

  Steve Young

  Orchestra, Technique, Instruments

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

  Steve Young

  Real, Vision, Sound

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• Brett Favre plays for championships. That's the only reason he puts up with all of this stuff. He's going to start to figure out, if it's true, that the Packers are not going to be competing for championships. The moment that comes into his heart - oh my gosh, the Packers are not going to be able to make it - that's the day he retires. It won't take much once he realizes that's where the Packers are going.

  Steve Young

  Heart, Play, Able

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