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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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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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"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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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."
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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
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"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."
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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
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"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
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"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."
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"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect."
Quality
"I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything."
Talent
"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."
Technology
"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
Work
"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."
Trying
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
Art
"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."
Learning
"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."
Music
"For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards."
First
"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
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