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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990) -
Only dead people need loud music.
The Temple of My Familiar (1989) -
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
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Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.
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Passion: It's what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.
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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
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Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
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Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
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