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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."

"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."

"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

"Experience everything but cling to what is right."

"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."

"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."

"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."
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"Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style."

"People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do."

"People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image."

"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition."

"If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room."

"Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music."

"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same."

"What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds."

"In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience."
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