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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.

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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.

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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 20th, 1950

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