I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.
When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair. - Tommy Bolin
When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.
- Tommy Bolin
I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step. - Tommy Bolin
I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano. - Tommy Bolin
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace. - Tommy Bolin
Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient. - Tommy Bolin
A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something. - Tommy Bolin
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.
I can't do anything but play guitar. - Tommy Bolin
I can't do anything but play guitar.
I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing. - Tommy Bolin
I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.
My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything. - Tommy Bolin
My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.
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