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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
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Montclair Township
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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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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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And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records
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But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment
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Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog
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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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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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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit
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I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos
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I did a song, Court and Spark, for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan he's amazing.
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Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration
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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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Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists
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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 privilege the music over the lyrics
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It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do
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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 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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Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that
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