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"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
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"I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop."
"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."
"There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album."
"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."
"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."
"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches."
"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now."
"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
"I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme."
"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."
"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do."
"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved."
"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
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