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"I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
"When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass."
"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong."
"If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric."
"An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens."
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"Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly."
"I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me."
"I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts."
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