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Ken Hensley Inspirational Quotes (17)

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It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
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I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.
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I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.
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THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.
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The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
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It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
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People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!
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The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.
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I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!
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I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
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I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.
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I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!
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All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.
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Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
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Sacrifice - the future has it´s price, and today is only yesterday's tomorrow.
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When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
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If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
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