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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think."
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"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly."
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"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too."
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"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
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"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."
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"My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this."
People
"My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums."
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"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."
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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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