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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."
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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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"Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea."
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"It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge."
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"And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage."
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"You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!"
Kids
"The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive."
Society
"Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time."
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"I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
Musicians
"That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes."
People
"It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen."
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