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"Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them."
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"I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die."

"The poacher's murderer was a man after Archer's own heart, for Archer also didn't like men to hurt Fire or make her acquaintance."

"Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device."

"Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis."

"Murder was deeply human. A person was killed and a person killed. And what powered the final thrust wasn't a whim, wasn't an event. It was an emotion. Something once healthy and human had become wretched and bloated and finally buried. But not put to rest. It lay there, often for decades, feeding on itself, growing and gnawing, grim and full of grievance. Until it finally broke free of all human restraint. Not conscience, not fear, not social convention could contain it. When that happened, all hell broke loose. And a man became a monster."

"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide."
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"Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working."

"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."

"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."

"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

"I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing."

"Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo."
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