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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."
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"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."
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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
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"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space."
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"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."
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"Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace."
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"Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last."
Blessing
"For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out."
Sound
"In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it."
Time
"Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well."
Night
"My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know."
Conversation
"The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters."
Girls
"By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family."
Family
"One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers."
Music
"Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life."
Life
"I have never been an innovator, a creative genius."
Genius
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