It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.
It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.
There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.
If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
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