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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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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."

"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."

"If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good."

"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."

"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

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

"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing."

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
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