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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."
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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all."
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"Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries."
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"I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain."
Love

"I have had death threats from people with fixations."
Death

"When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success."
Music

"The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was."
Music

"It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas."
Ireland

"I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone."
History

"The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey."
Journey

"I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time."
Time

"People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true."
Time

"I use my voice as an instrument."
Voice
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