I’ve got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They’re there for me every time.
BLACK FRANCISWhen we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
More Black Francis Quotes
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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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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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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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”
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Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
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I don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.
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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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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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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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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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Who do sing SONGS. It’s like I never sang before; like I was – I don’t know – reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing
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I come from an art history background. I studied at a master’s degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life.
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There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, ‘Velouria’] – ‘Sounds like someone’s been taking singing lessons’. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer.
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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
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I don’t make records that way, where I’m trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it’s just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
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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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When we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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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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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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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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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