Quotes by Brian Chippendale - Page 1

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Each Day
Therapeutic
Trying
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Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
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It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Able
Focus
Painful
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Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
People
Radio
Rocks
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I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.
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Littles
People
Working With Others
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Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting.
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Littles
People
Sound
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You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Masters
Musician
Painter
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People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Hard Times
Reading
Thinking
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I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Believe
Sound
Thinking
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I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Musician
Sight
Suffering
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
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Language
Pieces
Song
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I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Easy
Play
Rocks
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That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Body
Sound
Voice
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Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Art
Becoming
Lines
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It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Earth
Nice
People
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Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Fun
Language
Needs
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Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Fall
Insecurity
Singing
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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Artist
Different
Sound
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I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Documentation
Minutes
Writing
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I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.
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Art
Band
People
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Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Morning
Eggs
Trying
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More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Art
Cereal
People
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I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Feelings
People
Sound
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I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Art
Thinking
Trying
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I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Creating
Drawing
Gun
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There are people who seem to be on the verge of going either way, and something kicks in to support either the visual or the auditory. Maybe if you are in a rush for success you follow the one that is the most successful, and the other falls to the wayside.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Fall
People
Successful
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Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.
Brian Chippendale / Musician
Believe
Mean
Song
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