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"Discipline is required in all human endeavours."
"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."
"You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it."
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"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."
"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
"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."
"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."
"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
"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."
"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."
"I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years."
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