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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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"I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits."
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"I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere."
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"Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something."
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"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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