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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.

Black Francis

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 FRANCIS

Kings Like Mother Reading Song
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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Chance Different Thinking
That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
BLACK FRANCIS

Done Important People
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
When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
BLACK FRANCIS

Excited Label Stimulated Think Words
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
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
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
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
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
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master’s degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life.
BLACK FRANCIS

Art Hero Musical
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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Editor Mangled Most Say Stuff Writer
I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
BLACK FRANCIS

Art Feelings Thinking
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

Artist Jobs Real
We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
BLACK FRANCIS

Like Made Record Song
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.
BLACK FRANCIS

Parent Reality Voice

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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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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