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Steven Wilson

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 3, 1967

I grew up with vinyl records and remember the pleasure and the kind of buzz that I got from buying a beautiful vinyl record with the sleeve and the lyrics - all that kind of tactile experience that you could get from an old vinyl record.

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I really love the combination of Israel and England. They are completely different. The British are very private and keep things to themselves, while Israelis aren't that way. In England, I couldn't make friends with people in the supermarket or people who work at my bank or post office, but in Israel I can, and I like that.

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When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up. I didn't really like it, it was a way of financing my bands.

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Every time I make a new record, some of my existing fans are going to like it, and some are not. It's inevitable, and it's part of the deal. It's part of the job description.

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What I do is I basically make records to please myself first and foremost, and so one of the most important things for me as a musician and a writer and a producer is to feel like there's always a sense of evolution and reinvention with each record.

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I think my fans are much more open-minded than some other bands' fan bases are.

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We live in a world dominated by fear and paranoia.

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If you live in the city, you only have to look out your window to see enough that would make you feel that you don't want to step outside your front door ever again.

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My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

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That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes.

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I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.

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My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

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I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.

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When it comes to being in a band or going solo, one is collaborative, and one is not. But generally speaking, when going solo, I am the boss. People can contribute ideas, but I am the boss. When collaborating, you make compromises and look for a common ground.

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We had an extreme reaction to Storm Corrosion. We were proud of it, but it divided the audience. The metal fans were divided. Some went with it. Some hated it, since it wasn't the progressive metal supergroup they were waiting for.

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The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

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The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.

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I have a thing for major 7ths. They've got a very mournful, nostalgic quality to them.

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My favourite chord? Bb6th with added 9th.

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I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

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