I can often enjoy an interview even if the subject doesn't particularly interest me, as long as he has something to say and says it well.
Anthony DeCurtis
It's a vexing type of question. It seems silly, because music has been expressing these issues for centuries - it's hard to think that it doesn't have the cultural standing to do it any more.
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Who's going to do it? Who has the authority to kind of step into that role and speak for everybody?
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I think Michael has to get to a point where he just focuses.. And makes a great record
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B.B. Has a very specific kind of style, very lyrical. He doesn't play a lot of notes. In a slow blues arrangement, you can really hear the kind of elegance of his playing. He's not down and dirty.
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In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work.
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He was one of the architects of the Beatles sound.
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Morrison turned out to be a bitter, defensive guy, by far the biggest disappointment of any of my idols
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That certainly doesn't mean it's not significant. How much jazz gets played on the radio?
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They are songs that probe,.. They're not position papers. They're statements about the human condition in a way.... It captures something beyond 'I'm right and you're wrong.'
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In fact, among the people I met, the term served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about three days when a car that was sent to take me to an interview failed to start. After several attempts to get it going, the driver turned to me, smiled wearily and explained: 'Soviet car'. By that time, that was all the explanation I needed.
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