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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
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"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
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"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
Nation

"Music is always a commentary on society."
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"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
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"Without deviation progress is not possible."
Progress

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
Politics

"I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity."
Love

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
Musicians

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
Music
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