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- Original Sin
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as an original sin.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
- Delivery
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
- Humming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find humming is very useful.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
- Notes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life for me is about movement.
- Every Single Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
- Fortune
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs are more powerful than books.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020