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"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."
"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
"I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being."
"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
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