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"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
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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."
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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."
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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."
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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."
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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."
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"I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village."
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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."
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"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit."
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
Sound
"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."
America
"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
Literary
"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
Hollywood
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
Struggle
"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."
Neutrality
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
Mother
"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."
Humor
"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
Work
"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
Freedom
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