“My dad used to take me to the Met, and I was enthralled with the antiquity of musical technology. The dead ends, the sax horns with eight bells, things that looked like cellos that had frets—the arpeggione—that stuff just had me.”
—Steve Uhrik

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“I think in not making the record [when we expected to], I developed a real appreciation for the role of sound in music and art with regard to healing. It’s a method of transmission, and ‘What are you transmitting?’”

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“I think the combination of music and words is so much more powerful than simply the written word. If you can get those two things in balance, it can almost make you understand what is beyond understanding.”

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“I never felt confused about what I wanted to do with my life until I discovered punk. Then I wanted to be in a band so bad I thought that if I wasn’t in a band I would die.”

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“There’s nobody who’s going to be able to do what you do the way you do it.”

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““When I play my songs for the rest of the band, I start to hear them with other people’s ears.” —Jeff Tweedy

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