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"I did fidget through Beethoven, but actually I’m really glad they packed it all in there - it made up for the fact I was crap at school, completely rubbish, and had to leave at 16. Then my big brother turned up, his other son. He had Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis. And I was absolutely blown away. The extraordinary places music can go, the different changing textures, how you can thread ideas through different changes and still be coherent - you get used to that with classical, and jazz seemed to me to have that too.”
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