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Music Quotes
"Music. It's all creativity right here, right now."
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"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."
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"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."
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"I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart."
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"Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different."
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"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think."
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"My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now."
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"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected."
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"Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling."
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"You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not."
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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
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"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
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"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."
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"I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to."
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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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"Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day."
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"I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers."
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"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."
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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
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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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"Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound."
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"The songs become the show, which is how it should be."
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"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so."
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"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music."
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"It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession."
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"I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?"
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"The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level."
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