"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."

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"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."

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"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."

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"Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region."

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"This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice."

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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

Singing

"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."

Thought

"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."

Music

"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."

Past

"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."

Work

"I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer."

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"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."

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"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas."

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"Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs."

Character

"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing."

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