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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
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"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."
People
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
Art
"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."
Being
"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
Guitar
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
People
"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."
Music
"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."
Guitar
"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."
Idea
"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."
Music
"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."
Music
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