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 FRANCISStuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
More Black Francis Quotes
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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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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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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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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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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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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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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.
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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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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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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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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I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
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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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