I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

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And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

John Fogerty

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

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

John Fogerty

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

John Fogerty

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

John Fogerty

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

John Fogerty

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

John Fogerty

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

John Fogerty

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

John Fogerty

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

John Fogerty

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

John Fogerty

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

John Fogerty

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

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

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

John Fogerty

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

John Fogerty

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

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

John Fogerty

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Adrienne Rich

John Fogerty

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

John Perkins

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Paul Scofield

Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.

Evander Holyfield

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

Richard Pound

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

Caprice Bourret

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

Ben E. King

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?

Luis Guzman

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Eric Hoffer

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Phil Donahue

And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

Mary Tyler Moore

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Al Goldstein

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Richard Thompson

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Angelina Jolie