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I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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I think I'll take a bath in his blood. ↗

— Mike Tyson

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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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