We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.

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• James Blake:

  It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up ever

• James Blake:

  At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly comple

• James Blake:

  I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

• James Blake:

  The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

• James Blake:

  I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of gui

• James Blake:

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• John Legend:

  When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have t

• John Legend:

  My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano

• John Legend:

  I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

• John Legend:

  I want to move people.