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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."
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"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

"I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind."

"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."
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