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Religion Deals In Certainties And Philosophy Deals More In Un-answered Questions.

My Father Was Able To Play A Number Of Musical Instruments And I Fell In Love With Classical Music In My Teens And I Allowed It To Influence Me. I Like To Think I Took And Still Do From Classical Music And Various Techniques, I Have Made Classical Albums And Recorded Seven Different Pieces Of Bach On Different Albums And Its All Music Too Me.

When I'm Recording, Which Is Synonymous With Writing, I'll Play Things Over And Over Again Until It Sounds Like I've Got The Right Guitar Part. Whereas I Think, As The Much Younger Player I Tended To Do Things Much More Consciously. I Didn't Wait For The Moment Where Inspiration Might Strike. That's What I Do Now. I Wait For It To Naturally Start To Replay Itself In My Mind. As I Say, I Don't Force It. So I Like To Think Of Myself As A Receiver. I'm A Telephone Line To Who Knows Where, But Until I Hear It Through That Receiver, I Don't Usually Do It. It's Got To Start Writing Itself Somehow.

I Think That A Song, When It Works, Never Mind A Piece Of Long Form Music, Even A Song Is Something That Speaks To Itself But Has A Language All Of Its Own, Ideally.

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