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"So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles."
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"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."

"Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them."
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"Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again."

"He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes."
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"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."


"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life."


"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field."


"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."


"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
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