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"What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome."

"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."

"I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved."

"We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now."
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"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."

"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."

"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."

"Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music."

"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."

"Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back."

"And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music."

"And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it."
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