“My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's.”
dig interview (2004)
Context: My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.
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English singer-songwriter 1954Related quotes
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