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"The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is."
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"I don't use old music."
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"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune."
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"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars."
Men
"When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines."
Genius
"I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche."
Mission
"The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things."
Home
"You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record."
Inspirational
"There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released."
Change
"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."
Art
"We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one."
People
"Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side."
Change
"The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is."
Music
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