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Alan Vega

"I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?"

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"I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?"

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

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"It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places."

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"People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect."

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"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

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"Experience really does make you better, man."
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"I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment."
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"That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there."
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"I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you."
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"John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!"
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