“For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.”
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.