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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."

"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."

"It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest."
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"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."
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