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"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers."
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"I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo."
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"The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad."
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