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 FRANCISIt’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.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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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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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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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 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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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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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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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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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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.
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When we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
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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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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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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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