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"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best."
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