"Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that."

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I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too.

— Dave Smalley