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Arto Lindsay

"Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one."

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Donna Grant

"In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you."

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Donna Grant

"I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play."

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Donna Grant

"When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing."

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Donna Grant

"Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one."

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Donna Grant

"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."

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Donna Grant

"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."

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Donna Grant

"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."

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Donna Grant

"We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina."

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Donna Grant

"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."

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Donna Grant

"Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before."

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Arto Lindsay
"I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music."

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Arto Lindsay
"I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot."

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Arto Lindsay
"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."

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Arto Lindsay
"Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play."

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Arto Lindsay
"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

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Arto Lindsay
"Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country."

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Arto Lindsay
"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."

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Arto Lindsay
"We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play."

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Arto Lindsay
"There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here."

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Arto Lindsay
"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."

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