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I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
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When someone in the band behaved like an asshole, one of the others always said: "The Karma Police is gonna get you". I suppose it's all rubbish that your destiny depends on your deeds in a previous life, but you have to trust on something.
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If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
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We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.
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You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!
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If we get the music across, then that's the most important thing. If you can still make it intimate.
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Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
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I think the third album will be celebratory and maybe not so inward-looking; that would be great. I think thinking is a good thing but there are times when you just say 'fuck it'. We're allowed to make mistakes.
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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
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It's about the lack of control. You feel more sad than angry. But why Thom sings 'crushed like a bug in the ground', I don't know. "I hope I'm not sort of blowing our own trumpet, but I think Thom is probably the finest lyricist in the UK of his generation at the moment and hes always trying to progress, as we as musicians try to do ourselves. Theres this nice relationship between the lyrics and the music.
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Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
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I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
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I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.
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Probably our biggest criticism of ourselves is we think too much. We all went to university and have never thought there was anything wrong with thinking too much.
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People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.
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And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.
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I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
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I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.
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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
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For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
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This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
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Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.
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Phil is a real drummer's drummer.