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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
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"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
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"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."
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"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."
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"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."
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"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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"The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing."
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"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."
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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
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"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."
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"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing."
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"The world is a pile of grunge."
World
"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."
Fame
"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."
History
"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
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"I've got a computer, but I won't go near it."
Computer
"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
Hearing
"Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer."
Mercy
"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
Work
"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing."
Art
"I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more."
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