Dan Hicks Quotes

• There’s been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I’ve heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I’d heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

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• I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

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• I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren’t that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn’t have any money to do anything.

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• And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I’m not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.

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• There’s some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

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• About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I’ll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don’t do anymore, but they were good. And I don’t smoke.

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• Right now, I’m thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

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• There’ve been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

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• I guess my idea of a good audience is one that’s quiet and listens, but also that’s alive: they respond, they’re getting the jokes, they’re with me. And that’ s been happening.

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• My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

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• It’s not about retro or modern, it’s about this note or that note, which sounds better?

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• I haven’t been drinking for years now. Something’s got to give. I don’t mind that I’m a guy that’s stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

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• I don’t think I’d want a revival. I’m not doing a tribute to myself.

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• I don’t dictate the solos and I don’t dictate the vocal harmonies.

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Dan Hicks (14)

Birth:	9th December, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician

About

Daniel Ivan Hicks is an American singer-songwriter who combines cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music in his sound. He is perhaps best known for the songs "I Scare Myself" and "Canned Music." Hick's new album, a live album from his 70th Birthday, "Live at Davies" which was released in summer 2013.

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