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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."
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"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore."
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"I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels."
Reading
"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."
Future
"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank."
Computer
"I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time."
Time
"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."
Reason
"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."
Experience
"All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers."
Selling
"The avant-garde makes more sense to me."
Sense
"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure."
Work
"I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."
Future
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