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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style."

"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."

"If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room."

"Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music."

"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same."

"What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds."

"In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience."

"People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image."
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