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"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."
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"The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise."

"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."

"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

"In a battle between - two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it."
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"Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you."

"We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier."

"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."

"I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility."

"There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right."

"I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews."

"You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible."

"It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?"

"Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great."

"I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot."
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