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 FRANCISThere 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.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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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.
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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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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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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.
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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.
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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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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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