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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
"I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss."
"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."
"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."
"Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them."
"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"
Explore more quotes by Arto Lindsay
"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."
"There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here."
"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 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."
"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."
"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."
"It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all."
"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."
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