Rick Derringer Quotes

• We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.

  Rick Derringer

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• There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

  Rick Derringer

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Guitar, Point

• The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn’t really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn’t hear it.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Come, Play, Everybody

• So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who’s drunk come up and tell you you’re great.

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  Tags in Happiness, Drunk, Come

• My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Wife

• Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny’s house, so we could rehearse every day.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Day, Music

• It’s a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

  Rick Derringer

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Person, Consider

• In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in past, Back

• If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Music

• I’ve always been a guy who’s pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

  Rick Derringer

  Topics in Attitude, Nature

  Tags in Pretty

• I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Kind, Rock

• I wanted to play some more grown-up music – jazz.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Music, Play, Wanted

• I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn’t know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

  Rick Derringer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guitar, Place

• I started The McCoys in 1962, so I’m approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Year, Started

• I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I’ve found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

  Rick Derringer

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Music, Rock

• I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Music, Thought, Adult

• For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I’m great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

  Rick Derringer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Come

• Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we’re happy to be able to work together and that’s another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.

  Rick Derringer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Forward

• Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Successful, Over, Wanted

• And what makes me happy now has changed as well… Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who’s been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

  Rick Derringer

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  Tags in Day, Happy, Come

Rick Derringer (20)

Birth:	5th August, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer

About

Rick Derringer is an American guitarist, vocalist, and entertainer.When he was seventeen years old, his band The McCoys recorded "Hang on Sloopy" in the summer of 1965, which became the number one song in America before "Yesterday" by The Beatles knocked it out of the top spot.

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