There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, ‘Velouria’] – ‘Sounds like someone’s been taking singing lessons’. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer.
BLACK FRANCISIf you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”
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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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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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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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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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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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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn’t a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn’t deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
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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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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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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.
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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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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 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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