I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
BLACK FRANCISThere’s more to life than listening to rock music.
More Black Francis Quotes
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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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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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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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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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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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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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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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When you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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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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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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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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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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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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