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David Baker

"In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

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"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body."

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"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

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"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

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