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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."
"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."
"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"
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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."
"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
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