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.
BLACK FRANCISWhen 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.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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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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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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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 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.
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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 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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I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn’t a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn’t deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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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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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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