I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
BLACK FRANCISWise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
More Black Francis Quotes
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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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I don’t want to do children’s music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids – like when I’m putting them to bed.
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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You think you’ve made something really great, but there’s a reason why it’s not resonating the way some previous work did. But it’s not that easy to just replicate.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer.
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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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It’s sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn’t have a day job.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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