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"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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