top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Musician
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
19
"I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up."
19
"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."
19
"Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks."
19
"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."
19
"I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else."
19
"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is."
19
"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment."
19
"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
19
"Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words."
19
"Good acting is consistency of performance."
19
"Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
19
"I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up."
19
"But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing."
19
"Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big."
19
"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
19
"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."
19
"My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy."
19
"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
19
"The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original."
19
"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
19
"In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me."
19
bottom of page