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"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music."
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"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food."
"But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt."
"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring."
"And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s."
"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."
"When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year."
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