Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
BLACK FRANCISWhen you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
More Black Francis Quotes
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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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 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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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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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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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer.
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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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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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