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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