If you think about it, the word composing or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out.
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There was this curtain, the Iron Curtain, and it was keeping out interesting, cutting-edge music. But other than that, it was pretty normal.Jan Hammer
I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
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I'm so far removed from live playing any more.
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Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know Like what happened in the 60s. Everything just broke wide open. Music started getting connected between Jazz and Rock and Pop. Everything was wide open, there was much more freedom. Hopefully something like that will happen again.
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It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?
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