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If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

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Duncan Sheik
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 18
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Montclair Township
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I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me
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So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
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I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects
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It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do
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But really important, perhaps most important is the craft how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.
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I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos
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Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that
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I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head
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My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar
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I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record
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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit
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I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
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My first two records were more energetic Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet so these various reactions are just something I expected
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records
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And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
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A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following
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Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog
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I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do
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Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration
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I privilege the music over the lyrics
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