"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

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"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

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"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."

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John Zorn, American Composer

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"I feel really different from other musicians."

Mary Timony, American Musician

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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

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Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer

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"We're not spokespeople, we're musicians."

Ed O'Brien, English Musician

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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."

Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian Composer

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"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

Ray Manzarek, American Musician

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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

Eberhard Weber, German Musician

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"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."

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"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."

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"The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying."

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"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."

"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."

"I feel really different from other musicians."

"Our parents were musicians."

"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."

"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."

"We're not spokespeople, we're musicians."

"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."

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"Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics."

"I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly."

"Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory."

"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."

"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."

"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."

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"I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people."

"The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying."