"I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence."

-- Mike Gordon

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“Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.”
“I gave thee what could not be heard What had not been given before The beat of my heart I gave !”
“A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.”
“Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
“Iâ€™ll read my books and Iâ€™ll drink coffee and Iâ€™ll listen to music, and Iâ€™ll bolt the door.”
“No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.”
“I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.”
“A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.”

Source : "Avicii Says His GQ Profile Makes His Fans Look Like Drug Addicts And Jerks" by Connor Simpson, www.businessinsider.com. April 2, 2013.

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