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.
More Black Francis Quotes
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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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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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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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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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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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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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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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 think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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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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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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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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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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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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