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"That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year."
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"If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don't participate, you are already a loser."
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"Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act."
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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
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"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."
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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."
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"It takes physical, spiritual and mental preparation to overcome the life challenges."
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"If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled."
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"Every problem is a new puzzle to solve."
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"This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down."
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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
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"Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time."
Time
"You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy."
World
"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together."
Life
"For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing."
People
"As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more."
Attention
"I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing."
Music
"You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!"
Kids
"I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are."
Control
"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
Musicians
"It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative."
People
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