"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."

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"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."

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"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

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"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

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