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"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
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"Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head."

"Ramalama was moving higher in the sky already, the day was getting on. He was going to be late getting to San Fedora for his meeting with the Sheriff. And as a bounty hunter " even a good one with a lot of work, time is money. It seemed today that time was running out for Beck the Badfeller."

"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."

"I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it."

"I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure."

"The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason."
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"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."

"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."

"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."

"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."

"My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth."

"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."

"People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know."

"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."

"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
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