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.
BLACK FRANCISIt’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
More Black Francis Quotes
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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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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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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 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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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’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 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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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 initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn’t a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn’t deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
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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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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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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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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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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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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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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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