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"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
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"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
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"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
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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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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."
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"The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else."
Potential
"Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way."
Time
"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
Musicians
"If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient."
Music
"There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there."
History
"There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies."
Work
"I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could."
Business
"We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers."
Cats
"I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things."
Business
"I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play."
Quality
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