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"I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college."
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"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
"There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently."
Quality
"Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road."
Road
"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
"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
"Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed."
Mistake
"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."
Artist
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."
Wisdom
"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."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."
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"I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!"
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"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."
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"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."
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"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."
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"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
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