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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.

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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
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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Combination Form Kind Magic
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People

So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.

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