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I've got Arabic music in my blood.
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If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
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Don't believe everything you see on VH1.
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The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
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I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
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I realize that nothing's as it seems.
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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
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I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.
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Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
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I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
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I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.
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So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.