When you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
BLACK FRANCISI have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
More Black Francis Quotes
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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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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When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
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Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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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 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.
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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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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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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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