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Midge Ure

"I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last."

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"I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last."

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Amber Hurdle

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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Amber Hurdle

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."

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Amber Hurdle

"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

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Midge Ure
"At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard."

Beginning

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Midge Ure
"But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument."

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Midge Ure
"I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last."

Music

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Midge Ure
"So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically."

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Midge Ure
"In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters."

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Midge Ure
"You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard."

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Midge Ure
"You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion."

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