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"Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."

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"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."

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