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I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs. Keith Jarrett

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We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder. Keith Jarrett

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage. Keith Jarrett

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The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work. Keith Jarrett

Work Think Way About Undercover Practicing

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. Kevin Ayers

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The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. Kevin Ayers

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I can't write songs unless I am in love. Kevin Ayers

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Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible. Kevin Ayers

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Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press. Klaus Schulze

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I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too. Klaus Schulze

Too Rules Had Samples Realize Use

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common. Klaus Schulze

Nothing Musically Both Concert Common Album

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new. Klaus Schulze

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Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers. Klaus Schulze

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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means. La Monte Young

Own Definition Minimalism Minimum My Own Which Created Means

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this. La Monte Young

Become Had Calling Became Created

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. Leo Ornstein

Music Art Simple Pure Aural Ultimately End In The End

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. Leo Ornstein

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. Leo Ornstein

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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden. Leo Ornstein

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Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing. Leo Ornstein

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor. Leo Ornstein

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We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising. Leo Ornstein

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