Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
BLACK FRANCISI 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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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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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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You think you’ve made something really great, but there’s a reason why it’s not resonating the way some previous work did. But it’s not that easy to just replicate.
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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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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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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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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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