"I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head."
-Brian Eno
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"When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.“
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