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"I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it."
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"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."

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"I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."


"I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing."


"I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything."


"I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance."


"I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people."
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