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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."
Work
"The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong."
People
"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."
Time
"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."
Time
"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."
Music
"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."
Listening
"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."
Brazil
"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."
Money
"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."
Hearing
"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."
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"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"
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"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
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"I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice."
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"The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing."
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"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."
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"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
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"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."
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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
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"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."
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