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"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."

"The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again."

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"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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