"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."

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"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again."

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"Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them."

Money

"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."

Movies

"I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood."

Hollywood

"The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political."

Love

"In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here."

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"It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't."

Fun

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

"I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again."

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"Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them."

"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."

"I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood."

"The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political."

"In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here."

"It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't."

"It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it."

"This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival."

"I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do."

"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood."