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“People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.”

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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

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I love guys like Charlie Parker.

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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

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