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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
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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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"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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"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."
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"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."
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"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"
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"The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea."
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"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"
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"The world is a pile of grunge."
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"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."
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"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."
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"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."
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"Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer."
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"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."
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"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing."
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"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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"I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing."
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