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Jamie Muir

"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."

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Donna Grant

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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Donna Grant

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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Donna Grant

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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Donna Grant

"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."

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Donna Grant

"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."

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Donna Grant

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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Donna Grant

"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."

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Donna Grant

"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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Donna Grant

"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

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Donna Grant

"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

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Jamie Muir
"There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how."

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Jamie Muir
"King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in."

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Jamie Muir
"Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again."

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Jamie Muir
"Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music."

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Jamie Muir
"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."

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Jamie Muir
"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."

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Jamie Muir
"The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water."

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Jamie Muir
"The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them."

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Jamie Muir
"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."

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Jamie Muir
"At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London."

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