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"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
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"We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it."
Music
"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
Ideas
"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
England
"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."
Religion
"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
Being
"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
Nature
"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."
Listening
"No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore."
People
"I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience."
Experience
"It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
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