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- I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends,…
- From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really…
- I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
- I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.
- It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
- There's more good music being made now than ever before.
- It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it…
- Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio,…
- There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year…
- I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live…
- As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live…
- As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
- There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's…
- There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or…
- The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
- Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is,…
- Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used…
- I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in…
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