Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.
ALAN BISHOPI 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.
More Alan Bishop Quotes
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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 knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics.
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Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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I’m not satisfied with the state of humanity.
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Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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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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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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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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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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There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
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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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