I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me.
ALAN BISHOPIn terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don’t think about music.
More Alan Bishop Quotes
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There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
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Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.
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Old is unwanted. You don’t find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.
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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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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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If I must live on the same planet as Mr and Mrs out of touch, I will do whatever I can to jolt their zombie-ass skulls from the upside-down veal market they hang from.
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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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They’re not concerned with it. They don’t take their musical legacy seriously.
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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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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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I’m not satisfied with the state of humanity.
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I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others.
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