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• If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then…
• I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a…
• My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the…
• Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and…
• Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each…
• Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression.…
• I still have my "Anarchy in the UK" 7" [ Sex Pistols single]. I'm sure it gave us a context to think…
• Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.
• To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is…
• I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up…
• I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision,…
• The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

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