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"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."

"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."

"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."

"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art."

"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."

"I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything."

"Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it."

"If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once."

"Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others."
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