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"Often when you’re in the middle of doing something, you don’t realize what you’ve got," says Midnight Oil guitarist Jim Moginie about reissuing the band's back catalog.
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"We really honed our craft playing bar rooms to 50 or 60 people every weekend," says Greta Van Fleet bassist Sam Kiszka. "We never thought this fun hobby would turn into this career."
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"We want to make the artist sound great and give everyone their own sound," says writer/producer James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III about working with Terry Steven Lewis on Janet Jackson's albums.
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"We’ve been branded as Celtgrass," says We Banjo 3 multi-instrumentalist Dave Howley. "We’ve been given a brand new genre."
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"He’s worked on this issue all his life," says An Inconvenient Truth director Jon Shenk, speaking about Al Gore's environmental crusade. "He has suffered some defeat and yet managed to stay optimistic."
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"Not getting stuck anywhere has always been very important to me," says singer-songwriter Daniel Romano.
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"It’s not the style of music that has a shelf life," says Squirrel Nut Zippers' Jimbo Mathus.
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"We draw from a darker place when we write the music and lyrics," says Phantogram singer-guitarist Josh Carter.
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"Politicians now sit back while young people go off to fight wars," says director Jonathan Teplitzky, talking about Churchill's voluntary service in WWI.
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"With astroPuppees, I was living in L.A. and it was electric and loud," says singer-songwriter Kelley Ryan. "Now, it’s scaled down and deeper and quieter—not loud like the traffic."
