We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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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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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
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When we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
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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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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it’s kind of like that’s never really been my bag. Probably because I’m too shy.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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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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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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