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"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."
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"I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme."
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"All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready."
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"Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease."
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"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
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"That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty."
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"In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate."
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"Hockey is the original extreme sport."
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"I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance."
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"The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong."
People
"The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me."
Education
"I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music."
Music
"It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all."
Music
"There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing."
Money
"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."
Ideas
"I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot."
Friendship
"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."
Brazil
"Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play."
Listening
"To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people."
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