Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
BLACK FRANCISIf 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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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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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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That’s more important even then what their background is or what they’ve done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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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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When we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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I come from an art history background. I studied at a master’s degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life.
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I don’t make records that way, where I’m trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it’s just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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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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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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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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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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