Quotes by Bill Callahan - Page 1

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
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Average
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Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
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Ticket
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I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.
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Pork
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Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.
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Beautiful Day
Google
Beautiful Day Beautiful Day
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I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.
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Somewhere
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My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
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Integral
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James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
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Apparently
James
Saddle
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There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.
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Tiny
Towns
Wild
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I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'
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Encompassing
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When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
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Niche
Fill
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I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
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Civilization
Human Nature
Intertwined
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I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.
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Mountains
Oceans
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I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.
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Accuracy
Reflecting
Inaccuracy
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I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
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Calm
Deeper
Rational
Stopping
Tone
Work Music Thinking
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From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.
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Enjoyable
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I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.
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Correlation
Subconscious
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There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.
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Calm
Chaos
Peaceful
Sane
Life Music Me
Define
Meaning
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Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
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Block
Prose
Feather
Paragraphs
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I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.
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Dumb
Simple
Man I Am Me
Lot
Much
Am
Better Way
Through
Better Man Me
Read
Say
Maybe
Passes
Retain
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To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.
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Arena
Classic
Classic Rock
Maryland
Towns
Nowhere
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At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.
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Every Night
Midnight
Sun
Be Happy
Something Good
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I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.
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Conscious
Your Me Keep
Cloak
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Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
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Thank You
Pages
Sentences
Waste
Time Me Long
Note
Pare
Thank
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You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.
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Angry
Captured
Ice
Seconds
Moods
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Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.
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Admiration
Theory
Time Music Guitar
Craft
Gaze
Outward
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You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
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Christmas
Christmas Day
Girlfriend
Waiting
Chair
Electron
Fatter
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I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.
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Annoying
Luxury
Time Movies Myself
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Recently
Websites
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I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.
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Curls
Okay
Cross
Incorrectly
Mouth
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I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's something that I didn't start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that narrative that's already been created. You just have to read it and write it down.
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Floating
Narrative
Hitch
Realities
Recently
Ride
Situations
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I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.
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Absolutely Nothing
Drastic
Drastic Change
Electric
Electric Guitar
Skills
Subtle
Communicating
Plug
Recorder
Screaming
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