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• ‟ For years, my actual listening activity has been governed by what I perceived to be good for me as a musician, almost like the way an athlete trains for a given sporting task. I'd listen to something if I felt it would improve my sense of harmony or counterpoint, or whatever I was working on.

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• ‟ I went through a political shift when I was nineteen or twenty. I felt a certain way, and after the shift, I felt the opposite way. And never once did someone yelling at me or making me feel stupid do anything other than reinforce the convictions I had. What did get to me was people listening to me.

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• ‟ No one wants to hear me doing my best Garrison Keillor... I think that he's inimitable; he's one in a billion.

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• ‟ Really the greatest music I've ever heard I've hated the first time I heard it. It's been abrasive at first; it's been something that challenged me in a way that I wasn't fully comfortable with.

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• ‟ I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

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• ‟ New York will make you feel small. I think that's good. At least, it's good for me.

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• ‟ Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

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