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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."

"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."

"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."

"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."

"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."

"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."

"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
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"I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live."

"Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me."

"Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records."

"Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!"

"I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America."

"I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work."
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