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"There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."

"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."

"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."

"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."

"This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument."

"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."
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"I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for."

"I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it."

"What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much."

"If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics."

"Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be."

"We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there."
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