"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."

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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."

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"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together."

Life

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"It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge."

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