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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.