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.
BLACK FRANCISMy 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.
More Black Francis Quotes
-
-
That’s more important even then what their background is or what they’ve done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.
BLACK FRANCIS -
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 -
I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
BLACK FRANCIS -
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
BLACK FRANCIS -
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 -
I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
BLACK FRANCIS -
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.
BLACK FRANCIS -
When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
BLACK FRANCIS -
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 -
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
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 -
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 -
Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
BLACK FRANCIS -
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?”
BLACK FRANCIS -
They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
BLACK FRANCIS