"Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock."
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"This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics."
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"In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too."
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"The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic."
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"We are not completely autonomous."
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"The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually."
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"Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere."
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"Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You can take the notes home, but that experience is one you have to be there."
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"You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with."
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"Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four."
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"In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation."
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"The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us."
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"I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better."
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"Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America."
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"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."
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"I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey."
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"every mind is at least as heavy as mine"
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"Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground."
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"Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel."
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"That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language."
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