Ataxia Quotes
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Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal
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Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down
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I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.
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It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.
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Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
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So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.
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And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.
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I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
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The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.
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I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there