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"I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't."
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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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"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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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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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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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
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"Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack."
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"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
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"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
Hearing
"And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area."
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"My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton."
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"I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts."
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"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."
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"I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do."
Home
"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."
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