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Evan Dando

"I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting."

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"I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting."

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Evan Dando
"I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again."

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Evan Dando
"CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything."

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Evan Dando
"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."

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Evan Dando
"It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore."

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Evan Dando
"When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later."

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Evan Dando
"But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together."

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Evan Dando
"I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work."

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Evan Dando
"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."

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Evan Dando
"For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead."

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Evan Dando
"I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out."

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Aberjhani

"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

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Aberjhani

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

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Aberjhani

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

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Aberjhani

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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Aberjhani

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

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Aberjhani

"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

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Aberjhani

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Aberjhani

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Aberjhani

"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

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Aberjhani

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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