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"Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument."
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"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."

"I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired."

"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."

"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."

"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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"I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference."

"You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth."

"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."

"I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be."

"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves."

"I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence."

"I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record."

"My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant."
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