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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'."
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"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"
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"There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you."
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"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art."
Art
"A part of me has become immortal, out of my control."
Control
"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 a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything."
Talent
"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."
Music
"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."
People
"I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!"
Music
"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."
Technology
"In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter."
People
"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect."
Quality
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