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The real secret of success is enthusiasm. ”
I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself. ”
What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess. ”
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. ”
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? ”
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ”
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ”
Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser. ”
Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done. ”
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment. ”