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"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."
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"Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country."

"The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong."

"We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer."

"To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people."

"We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it."

"Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play."

"There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing."

"We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play."

"I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music."
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"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."

"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."

"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."

"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."

"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."

"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"

"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."
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