Old is unwanted. You don’t find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.
ALAN BISHOPBut the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
More Alan Bishop Quotes
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My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities!
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Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music.
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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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If you’re somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you’re pretty much going to know what’s going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.
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They’re not concerned with it. They don’t take their musical legacy seriously.
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Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.
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I don’t speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don’t even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places.
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From the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.
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I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings.
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Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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Like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear – then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it.
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There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
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I’m not satisfied with the state of humanity.
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