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"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
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"After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously."
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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
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"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
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"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
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"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
Listening

"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
Holly

"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
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"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
People

"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
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"The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with."
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