Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it. - David Sylvian

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We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

David Sylvian

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

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The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

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People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

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I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

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I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

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During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

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