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Music Quotes
"I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff."
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"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
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"Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league."
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"Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records."
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"Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from."
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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
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"To do it always right, that is what music is to me."
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"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."
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"If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it."
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"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good."
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"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence."
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"If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues."
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"The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market."
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"We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing."
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"We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on."
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"I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit."
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"Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register."
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"We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way."
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"And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area."
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"Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful."
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"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
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"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."
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"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."
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"All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations."
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