Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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I think that there are lots of people that play music, but, basically, they have other things that are motivating them to play music.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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Those things are the results of what people see and hear that you do. But the human beings themselves are living on a multiple level.
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I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
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I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
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