"I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child."

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"I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

Alex North, American Composer

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

Rick Derringer, American Musician

Music, Thought

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

Sting, British Musician

Music, Language, Needs

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

Music, Key, Listening

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body."

Klaus Schulze, German Composer

Music, Dance, Being, Body

"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

Martha Reeves, American Musician

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"At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right."

Time

"We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired."

Time

"What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business."

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"There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe."

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"Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that."

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"But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it."

Time

"Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

"Listening is the key to everything good in music."

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body."

"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

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"We're not spokespeople, we're musicians."

"It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country."

"We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band."

"At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right."

"We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired."

"What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business."

"There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe."

"Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that."

"But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it."

"Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us."