top of page
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween

"I was never into smart college boy music."

Standard 
 Customized
"I was never into smart college boy music."

Exlpore more Music quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine."

Explore more quotes by Gene Ween

Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"We love doing commercial and TV show work."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish."
Quote_1.png
Gene Ween
"Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us."
bottom of page