Mr. COLEMAN: I was thinking about how I do I make better music.

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"I think if you've spent your life focusing on just how the music you make is going to sound and even how it's going to feel, you're going to get thrown when all these other people start adding what it is that they want it to look like and feel like, " he says.

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