The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.

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When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.

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chinese jobs people

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

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example heart past

She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.

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That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

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illusion waiting home

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

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It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

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Make life an art rather than art from life.

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It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

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falling-in-love way fall

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

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guitar drug fall

These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.

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play ideas thinking

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

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Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

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hendrix

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

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Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

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monday running lying

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

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Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

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live-and-let-live gang idiot

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

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mind song thinking

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

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guitar couple thinking

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

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principles practice

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

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