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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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Akiroq Brost

"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."

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Akiroq Brost

"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."

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Akiroq Brost

"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

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Akiroq Brost

"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

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Akiroq Brost

"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

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Akiroq Brost

"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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Akiroq Brost

"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

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Akiroq Brost

"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

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Akiroq Brost

"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

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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."

Alcohol

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Evan Dando
"I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night."

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Evan Dando
"I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band."

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

Music

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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
"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."

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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
"I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think."

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

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