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"Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas."
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"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
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"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
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"I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February."
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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
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"I was knocked out by the show, Chicago."
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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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"The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago."
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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."
Being
"Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture."
Trying
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."
Wisdom
"The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens."
Agreement
"I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college."
Chicago
"By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum."
Music
"Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food."
Food
"If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength."
Strength
"Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything."
Music
"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."
Chicago
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