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"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."
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"Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable."
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"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."
People
"As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me."
Sound
"I take sounds and change them into words."
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"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."
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"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."
Experience
"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."
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"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."
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"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."
Music
"If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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