Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
BLACK FRANCISThis 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.
More Black Francis Quotes
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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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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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Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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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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Who do sing SONGS. It’s like I never sang before; like I was – I don’t know – reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing
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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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It’s sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.
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I’m always looking to rock out. But it isn’t really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good.
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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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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”
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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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