I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
BLACK FRANCISI 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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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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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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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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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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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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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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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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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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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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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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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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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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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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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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