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Music is nothing but ratios and harmonic math, anyways.

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Sometimes if you polish too much, you rub off the shine.

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I'm much more into 'electronica' (yeah, I know it's cliche these days).

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Unfortunately Sting's jazz work isn't nearly as inventive as his rock songs.

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Well anyone can make a 'weird' [chord] progression by randomly picking triads.

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I have a love for cheesy music. I don't want to list any bands and embarrass myself ; D

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As with any collaboration, you have to find someone that's in your 'mode' of making music.

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Unfortunately, as technology has improved, that which was 'underground' now heads towards obsolescence.

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Stylistic evolution comes from listening to what other people have done and making a Darwinistic modification.

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A lot of [my] songs have various strange oddities in them - usually this is the result of late-night dementia.

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Once you have a basic grasp of the theories underlying music, you can pretty much pick up any instrument you want.

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Every musician, I guess, wants to alter the world to his or her taste in some fashion... That's part of why I write music.

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If I was obsessed with making money off of my music, I wouldn't have released it for free on the internet for the last 5 years.

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Usually musicians have egos and personality quirks which makes it difficult to form collaborative efforts (for long periods of time, anyways).

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I try to avoid categorizing music as much as I can, though. Everyone steals so much from everyone else these days, the lines between genres are very washed-out.

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If someone only ever listens to, say, Nickelback, their opinion [about music taste] is valid but largely meaningless since they don't bring any depth to the discussion :)

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To impact someone emotionally, [a musical piece] has to contain "interesting" melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic content, and what defines "interesting" is up to the listener.

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The usual problem with progressive rock is that the band can get so wrapped up in their own fantasy land that their music becomes completely inaccessible. "Wanky", if you will.

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It's hard to quantify a 'top ten' list of songs for many reasons. I like many styles of music, and it's difficult to compare radically divergent types of music with each other.

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You could argue that there's maybe some mathematical interest in a Bach fugue, say, but the only thing that music does really well is "move" people — make them feel something.

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The problem these days is again just the sheer amount of music available, and that music isn't as important an experience in people's lives in the 21st century as it was previously.

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I'm not a big fan of asynchronicity just for its own sake - a lot of people push rhythmic variation so far that the basic pulse of the music gets lost (and the listener is confused).

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I think that the public judges a song on the overall feel, not individual samples. If a sample contributes too heavily to the song, and the sample is recognized, the opinion of the piece goes down.

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I think we'll soon see a new breed of musicians who have both a modern chordal sense (jazz) and a high comfort level with synthesizers and new breeds of sounds (from the electronica/techno/dj scene).

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