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"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."

"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."

"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."

"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."

"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
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"Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk."


"I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with."


"Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to."


"Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company."


"People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that."
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