You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
BLACK FRANCISI’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.
More Black Francis Quotes
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
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I think if everyone agrees that that’s the goal then it doesn’t matter who’s the band and it doesn’t matter who’s the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.
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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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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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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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 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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You think you’ve made something really great, but there’s a reason why it’s not resonating the way some previous work did. But it’s not that easy to just replicate.
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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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When you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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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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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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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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