Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
BLACK FRANCISYou should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
More Black Francis Quotes
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn’t have a day job.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, ‘Velouria’] – ‘Sounds like someone’s been taking singing lessons’. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer.
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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.
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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn’t how people are going to receive them, because they don’t know the code.
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I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer.
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