But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
ALAN BISHOPMy sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities!
More Alan Bishop Quotes
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My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities!
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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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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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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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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 I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics.
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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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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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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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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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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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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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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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