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Maxioms by John Abercrombie

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Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I read more

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

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If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out read more

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

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Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and read more

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

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On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, read more

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

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They're young, and I'm getting older every game.

They're young, and I'm getting older every game.

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