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"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."
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"We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it."
Music
"Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play."
Listening
"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."
Brazil
"I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music."
Music
"I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot."
Friendship
"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."
Sense
"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."
Ideas
"There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here."
Time
"It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all."
Music
"The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me."
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"Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well."
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"The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game."
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"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."
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"Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days)."
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"Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves."
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"I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato."
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"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves."
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