Old is unwanted. You don’t find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.
ALAN BISHOPThey’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
More Alan Bishop Quotes
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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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I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me.
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Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music.
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My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities!
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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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I’ve had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we’re truly after.
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Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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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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Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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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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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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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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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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