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I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
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With British bands, there was this whole thing about having something to say. But, maybe naively, we said, 'It's about music.' And that's what it's about.
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I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.
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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
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'My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel - towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends.' - source
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You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.
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We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.
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To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.
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If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
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We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.
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We call him Shabba. You know, Shabba Ranks, Mr. Loverman. He likes the ladiez." "When Thom starts singing, you can’t hold back the tears.
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I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or violin case - because I know, if they're doing it professionally, how many years of practice have gone into being able to make music with them. And the sounds they can make just hit me very hard, and feel full of limitless complexity.
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A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
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Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
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People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
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I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
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When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
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What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.
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At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
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Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
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Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
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It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.