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"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."
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"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."
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"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is."
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"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."
Life
"I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music."
Music
"And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even."
Work
"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music."
Music
"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."
Past
"I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused."
Now
"There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie."
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"And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music."
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"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."
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"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."
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