When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
BLACK FRANCISIt’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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I don’t want to do children’s music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids – like when I’m putting them to bed.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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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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Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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