Quotes by Corin Tucker - Page 1

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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Face To Face
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The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.
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Teen
Eighties
Teen Years
Touchstone
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I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
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Straightforward
Pretty
Diva
Bit
Performer
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When in doubt, I always go vintage! Get a ruffled dress and throw a t-shirt over it.
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Over It
Vintage
When In Doubt
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I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.
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Melodies
Simplistic
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I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.
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Rock Music
Male
Large
Predominant
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I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.
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Freshman
Freshman Year
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My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.
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English Language
Love Me Children
Passed
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There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.
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Music Industry
Male
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I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world.
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Amazing
Honored
Riot
Obviously
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Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.
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Breaking
Stand Up
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The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.
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Convention
Heavens
Underground
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I feel really lucky. My fans are incredibly loyal. They encourage me to keep going. I feel more torn, trying to fulfill what my kids need. It's really huge. They're doing so well.
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Loyal
Torn
Fulfill
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I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.
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Instrument
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I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.
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Daft
Dance Music
Punk
Love Music Great
Happening
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Aretha Franklin, she's just the most amazing singer ever. But I think there are so many singers that I just loved and sang along to on the radio. I guess I just enjoy trying out different styles along the way.
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Different Styles
Franklin
Most Amazing
Singers
Aretha
Sang
Styles
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I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace.
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Long Way
Workplace
Validated
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Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.
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Flexible
Willingness
Work Time Business
Rock Stars
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I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.
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Driven
Financially
Speaks
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Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.
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Equal
Equal Pay
Frustrating
Movement
Joined
Reproductive
Twenty
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I don't always succeed in creating a delicious dinner for my family; I would, however, argue for the likely success of Taco Night. Who doesn't love a taco? Make it with veggie crumbles! Add fish! Have you tried ground buffalo? The results are always impressive.
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Add
Buffalo
Delicious
Dinner
Succeed
Love Success Family
Argue
Fish
Crumble
Taco
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It's great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That's very different from when I was growing up - it was all like, 'Stand by your man.'
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Beyonce
Careers
Perspective
Women Great Man
Charge
Swift
Task
Taylor
Taylor Swift
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I loved 'Rock Lobster.' I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. I thought that was really cool and exciting, that there was actually a band that had their own dance at that point.
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Dance
Band
Heard
Lobster
Floor
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I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.
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Big Deal
Granted
Musician
Privileged
World People Feel
Always World People
Take For Granted
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I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'
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Thank You
Cooking
Dinner
Glad
Glitter
Presentation
Relish
Blazer
Life Work Smart
Indeed
Thank
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I've played 'The Wizard of Oz' for my kids, but by today's standards, it seems really long. I don't know if there's enough action in it for them. And there's the whole black-and-white sequence in the beginning where she's on a farm. It takes a while to get to the colored part, and then it gets more exciting, and things start to happen.
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Sequence
Standards
Colored
Farm
Wizard
In The Beginning
Oz
Wizard Of Oz
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I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.
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Draws
Intense
Related
Huge Influence
Immediate
Melodic
Simplistic
Structures
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