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Quotes by Musician
"In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation."
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"I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal."
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"The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on."
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"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."
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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
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"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."
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"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."
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"That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?"
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"Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off."
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"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."
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"I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit."
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"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
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"My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have."
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"There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time."
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"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."
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"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."
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"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first."
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"My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations."
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"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."
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"Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being."
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"I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance."
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"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either."
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"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
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"I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it."
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"The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player."
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"There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level."
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"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."
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"Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!"
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"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."
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"It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual."
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"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
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"Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality."
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"I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do."
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