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Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

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Steve Young
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 11
American Football Player
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Salt Lake City
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Jon Steven Young
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I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.
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My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.
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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!
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Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The principle is competing against yourself.
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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.
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My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
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Everything you do in life is up to you. Part of life is realizing you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know, but it's up to you to face the fears and unleash that which really drives you.
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When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.
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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.
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I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.
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The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.
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When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.
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Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We have to make an affirmative stand on it.
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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?
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I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.
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