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.
ALAN BISHOP
If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics.
More Alan Bishop Quotes
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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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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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They’re not concerned with it. They don’t take their musical legacy seriously.
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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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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don’t think about music.
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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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Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.
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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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There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
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Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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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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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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