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Steven Wilson
English
Musician
Born:
Nov 3
,
1967
Me
Music
People
Think
Time
You
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It's nice to be in the position where you're the guy with the vision, but you're able to work with people who can bring your vision to life - and then some.
Steven Wilson
Life
Work
You
People
Vision
Nice
Able
Some
Guy
Where
Then
Your
Who
Bring
Position
It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.
Steven Wilson
Home
Will
Possible
Only
Israel
Second
Second Home
What I do is I basically make records to please myself first and foremost, and so one of the most important things for me as a musician and a writer and a producer is to feel like there's always a sense of evolution and reinvention with each record.
Steven Wilson
Myself
Me
First
Important
Important Things
Sense
Please
Musician
Evolution
Record
Records
Writer
Feel
Like
Most
Make
Always
Foremost
The Most Important
Producer
Each
Things
Reinvention
Basically
I think my fans are much more open-minded than some other bands' fan bases are.
Steven Wilson
Fans
Think
Other
Some
More
Open-Minded
Than
Bands
Fan
Much
Bases
That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes.
Steven Wilson
Love
Music
Journey
Me
Made
First
Fall
Able
Minutes
Take
Idea
First Place
Listeners
Being
Sixty
Place
Across
Forty
I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.
Steven Wilson
Smart
Listening
Tears
Fears
Records
Like
Prince
Talk
Lot
Up
Very
Mode
Depeche
Artists
Gabriel
Grew
Bush
Pop
Kate
Peter
My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.
Steven Wilson
Youth
Progressive
Ways
Record
Records
Inspired
Ambitious
Hugely
Loved
Fifth
Pop
Many
I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.
Steven Wilson
Love
People
Feeling
Think
Relate
Spilling
Obsession
Over
Most
When it comes to being in a band or going solo, one is collaborative, and one is not. But generally speaking, when going solo, I am the boss. People can contribute ideas, but I am the boss. When collaborating, you make compromises and look for a common ground.
Steven Wilson
You
People
Band
Collaborating
Collaborative
Solo
Boss
Compromises
Generally
Ideas
Look
Make
Am
Contribute
Going
Common
Being
Common Ground
Speaking
Ground
We had an extreme reaction to Storm Corrosion. We were proud of it, but it divided the audience. The metal fans were divided. Some went with it. Some hated it, since it wasn't the progressive metal supergroup they were waiting for.
Steven Wilson
Waiting
Fans
Progressive
Extreme
Hated
Some
Divided
Had
Since
Reaction
Metal
Audience
Proud
Were
Storm
The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.
Steven Wilson
People
Fire
Consider
Considering
Almost
Audience
Real
Ultimately
Up
Artists
Themselves
Incapable
Who
I have a thing for major 7ths. They've got a very mournful, nostalgic quality to them.
Steven Wilson
Quality
Major
Got
Very
Mournful
Nostalgic
Them
Thing
My favourite chord? Bb6th with added 9th.
Steven Wilson
Added
Favourite
Chord
I think anybody who likes Cardiacs, they tend to be quite evangelistic about them for obvious reasons. They're not a band you can be on the fence about.
Steven Wilson
You
Band
Think
About
Tend
Likes
Obvious
Fence
Quite
Anybody
Them
Who
Reasons
I think 'genius' is an overused word.
Steven Wilson
Genius
Word
Think
Overused
I think that's part of the battle of defining yourself as an artist. You're constantly fighting the pressure from outside to be pigeonholed and deliver more of what people already liked.
Steven Wilson
You
Yourself
Battle
People
Pressure
Fighting
Think
Defining
Constantly
More
Deliver
Outside
Part
Liked
Pigeonholed
Artist
Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.
Steven Wilson
You
Comfortable
Surprise
Shock
Expectations
Confront
Pop
Should
Your
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