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“I don't analyze things like titles.”

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Tommy Lee Jones, born on September 15, 1946, is an American actor renowned for his tough guy persona. He has won an Academy Award for Best Actor and is celebrated for his exceptional performances in films. more

“We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, "We're thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you do a solo record?" I said, "Well, how am I going to do that?" I thought about it, and I'd been working on a lot of music in the years before, and I was working as a journalist, full time, really, up until that point; in whatever little spare time I had, I was working on music. So I said yes.”

Thinking Years Wells Littles Said Records Starting Labels Journalist Spares Solo Wire Drank Record Labels Spare Time

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“I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.”

Ifs Energy Stuff Materials Huge Amount Needed Concerned Unconscious Unleashed

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“One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.”

Way Different Energy Grief Huge Amount Tragedy Different Ways

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“People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.”

People Different Moving Practice Boxes

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“I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime interview for Radio London or something. You wouldn't immediately associate the music on Ocean Of Sound with drivetime radio, but people found things that they liked, and the DJ was playing some records at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday.The man who was playing them said to me, "That Peter Brotzmann track, it's like having your head boiled in acid."”

People Men Said Book Remember Found Sound Records He Man Ocean Track Radio London Clock Interviews Afternoon Peter Associates Acid Cds Djs Weekdays

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“I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate - I never thought I would be able to express publicly.”

Firsts Would Be Able Sound Records Listening African American American Music Sam Cooke African American Music

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“One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".”

People Stills Book Done Reading Sound Ocean Six Sake

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“I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish.”

Thinking Stills Rubbish Dip

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“Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing this, I don't know anything, I can't do this." And I went through years of that with Into The Maelstrom.”

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