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John Otto

"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."

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"It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about."

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"Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy"

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

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"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

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"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."

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"Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure."
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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."
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"I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that."
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"We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album."
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"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."
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"I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing."
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"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."
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"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."
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