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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.

Black Francis

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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Everyone Matter People Situation
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.”
BLACK FRANCIS

Asking Guy Interview Nothing One Report Tell
They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
BLACK FRANCIS

Credit Giving Toes
I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
BLACK FRANCIS

Expression Painting Thinking
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
BLACK FRANCIS

Age Boston Song
I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
BLACK FRANCIS

College Kids Two
A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
BLACK FRANCIS

Artist Heroes Lot Side
I’ve got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They’re there for me every time.
BLACK FRANCIS

Appreciate Audience Loyal
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
BLACK FRANCIS

Editors Musicians Stuff
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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Children Song Writing
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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Catholic Lasts Stories
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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Before Happy Mysterious People Some
Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
BLACK FRANCIS

Companies Long Ocerchanging Record Trouble
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 FRANCIS

might People Song
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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Couplet Level Levels Mean People
Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
BLACK FRANCIS

Brother Free Library Local Stuff

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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