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Duncan Sheik

"A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following."

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Donna Grant

"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

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Donna Grant

"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."

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Donna Grant

"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

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Donna Grant

"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."

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Donna Grant

"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"

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Donna Grant

"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."

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Donna Grant

"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."

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Donna Grant

"I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me."

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Donna Grant

"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have."

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Duncan Sheik
"Happy music doesn't tend to move me much."

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Duncan Sheik
"I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head."

Home

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Duncan Sheik
"I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that."

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Duncan Sheik
"Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records."

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Duncan Sheik
"Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog."

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Duncan Sheik
"My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected."

First

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Duncan Sheik
"The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away."

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Duncan Sheik
"I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that."

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Duncan Sheik
"I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me."

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Duncan Sheik
"Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration."

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