That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.
I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.