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"Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
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"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."
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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."
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"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
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"This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument."
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"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."
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"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song."
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"You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song."
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"We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do."
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"Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs."
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"I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great."
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"Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working."
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"If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin."
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"Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff."
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"I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul."
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