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For a while, I was working on transcribing rap lyrics and then converting them into rhythmic patterns on the piano. And so in my mind, when I was taking a solo, I would be saying the lyrics and trying to play actual notes to their rhythms. Now, the influence just comes in and out in my playing.


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DYLAN MORAN It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.
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DYLAN MORAN The whole thing was conspired by Jim Hood.
MITCH MORAN I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.
DYLAN MORAN It's a smart strategic move for XM because they need to answer the Howard Stern question. It's not a...
FREDERICK MORAN I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar ...
VICTORIA MORAN I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.
CAITLIN MORAN We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics c...
CAITLIN MORAN It shows there is still solid underlying demand for housing and that activity this year, while slowi...
MICHAEL MORAN The results were not especially promising for the outlook, ... Final demand was sluggish, and the sl...
MIKE MORAN Why does Lt. Stewart push this? Because he's the one who pushed it.
JAMES MORAN the farthest thing from the truth.
DAN MORAN Ambassadors International clearly has established itself in the cruise industry through its outstand...
CHUCK MORAN They've seen him (Gore) for eight years, it is almost impossible to come up with a new idea that his...
JAMES MORAN From our camp at the pocket the wall of the Grand Canon was visible some 15 miles down the valley.
THOMAS MORAN I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I...
NICK MORAN My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.
MORAN ATIAS It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.
NICK MORAN We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.
KELLY MORAN If you’re trying to tell me you’re not used to mattering to someone, I might just bleed out righ...
KELLY MORAN A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan...
DYLAN MORAN My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you ...
NICK MORAN • Judge less–or at least later.
• Give new ideas and images a chance.
• Understand...
VICTORIA MORAN I kinda felt like the first slice of bread in the bag. Everyone touched me, but no one wanted me.
KELLY MORAN People tend to pay attention to the guy who shouts and ignore the one who whispers.
KELLY MORAN The index was well behaved last year. And one monthly jump does not necessarily signal a shift in tr...
MIKE MORAN We do have quite a bit of turnover. It's kind of a revolving door at this point.
BETH MORAN We never dreamed (Hurricane Katrina) was going to be that bad. We never did. We just appreciate so m...
BETH MORAN We came out and set the pace of play. A lot of guys stepped up who haven't played well lately.
JOHN MORAN The interaction I've had with the board is very positive, and at first glance, I have trust that the...
JOHN MORAN I'd like to have bail set lower than that. It's a high bail and I understand the judge's concerns.
JOHN MORAN Our press got us going in the beginning, and our trap zone got us going too. It was our defense.
JOHN MORAN Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.
MICHELLE MORAN Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.
CAITLIN MORAN People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like &#...
DYLAN MORAN We've been running it on remote sites in Canada and Norway. It reduces eight-second delays over sate...
DAVID MORAN Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a...
KELLY MORAN because the National Rifle Association is opposed to it.
JIM MORAN