Big Jim Sullivan Quotes

• Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can’t make a decent human being out of you.

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• My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

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• It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.

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• I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

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• It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

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• It wasn’t all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

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• I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

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• You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn’t make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

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• Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn’t, No! it wasn’t me either.

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• It was the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock ‘n’ Roll.

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• I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.

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• A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

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• Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn’t use my name.

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• I never liked making albums.

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• The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

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• Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

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• I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don’t ask the names.

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• I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

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• I didn’t even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

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• They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life.

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Big Jim Sullivan (26)

Birth:	14th February, 1941
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician

About

Big Jim Sullivan was an English musician, whose career started in 1958. He was best known as a session guitarist. In the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the most in-demand studio musicians in the UK, and performed on around 800 charting singles over his career, including 54 UK Number One hits.

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