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
BLACK FRANCISI think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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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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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 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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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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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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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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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 don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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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 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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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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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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