top of page

"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."

Arto Lindsay, American Musician

Brazil, Missionaries, Parents, states

49

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."

Exlpore more Brazil quotes

"The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game."

Michel Patini, French Footballer

Brazil, Football

"Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well."

Nelly Furtado, Canadian Musician

Brazil, Interest

"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves."

Marlene Dietrich, American Actress

Brazil, Flowers

"Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days)."

Joe Tex, American Musician

Brazil, Living, Parents, Years

"Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves."

John Motson, British Celebrity

Brazil, Running

"I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato."

Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian Model

Brazil, Kids, Want

"My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil."

Arto Lindsay, American Musician

Brazil, Missionaries, Parents, states

Explore more quotes by Arto Lindsay

"It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas."

"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."

"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."

"Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play."

"There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing."

"Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one."

"I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it."

"There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here."

bottom of page