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.
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 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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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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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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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’ve got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They’re there for me every time.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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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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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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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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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 think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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 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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