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John Fogerty

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Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.


— John Fogerty


#music #life

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.


— John Fogerty


#best #each #even #feel #i

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.


— John Fogerty


#knew #much #play #pretty #time

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.


— John Fogerty


#been #demons #i #know #proud

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.


— John Fogerty


#doing #eddy #good #guitar #had

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.


— John Fogerty


#coming #destroy #haunt #i #material

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.


— John Fogerty


#burton #carry #could #even #his

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.


— John Fogerty


#bad #fact #good #good songs #hard

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.


— John Fogerty


#because #break #get #i #kid

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.


— John Fogerty


#beautiful #elegant #harmony #i #i think






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Did you know about John Fogerty?

Fogerty says that he was unable to write music during this period of his life primarily due to stresses from ongoing financial and legal difficulties with Fantasy Records. On August 31 2009 Fogerty released a sequel to his 1973 solo debut The Blue Ridge Rangers called The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again. The group disbanded shortly afterwards.

40 and the list of 100 Greatest Singers at No. The songs "Proud Mary" and "Born on the Bayou" also rank amongst the Greatest Pop songs ("Proud Mary" #41) and Guitar songs ("Born on the Bayou" #53).

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