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"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
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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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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."
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"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."
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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity."
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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
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"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
Music


"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
Life


"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
Attention


"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
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"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
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"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
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