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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."
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"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."
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"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."
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"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."
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"I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village."
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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
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"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
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"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth."
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"Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product."
Now
"I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands."
Mouse
"You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles."
Death
"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
Musicians
"I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much."
Men
"Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice."
Life
"I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got."
Sound
"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."
Art
"A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas."
Ideas
"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."
Sound
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