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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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"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
"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."
"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."
"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."
"The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation."
"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
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