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"I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."
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"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."
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"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."
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"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
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"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."
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"I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it."
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"I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music."
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"I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great."
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"Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own."
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"I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African."
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"I have writing songs on my own for about six years."
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"The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words."
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"I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp."
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"I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated."
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"I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely."
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