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"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
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"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."

"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding."

"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."

"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."

"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."

"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."

"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."

"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."

"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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