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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."
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"I feel really different from other musicians."
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"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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"I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success."
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"It is never easy for anyone to have success in music."
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"History has repeated itself many times througout the ages."
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"I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass."
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"I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more."
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"I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play."
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"Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan."
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"I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys."
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"My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me."
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"Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better."
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