Quotes by Janet Weiss - Page 1

Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.
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Bigger
Becomes
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I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.
Janet Weiss /
Freight
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This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.
Janet Weiss /
Band
Missing
Weight
Life Important My Life
Life My Life Important
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You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
Janet Weiss /
Voices
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Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.
Janet Weiss /
Caught
Drummer
Typical
Unattainable
Good Always Your
Useful
Creatively
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I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.
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Ads
Dog
Photography
Term
Bands
Classified
Delivered
Longest
Producer
Typed
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I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.
Janet Weiss /
Musician
Quiet
Alternative
Cultural
Norms
Stereotypes
Supposed
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You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.
Janet Weiss /
Bike
Charming
Late
Mentality
Moved
Portland
Underdog
Acted
Anywhere
Dressed
Ride
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Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.
Janet Weiss /
Being Yourself
Emotional
Yourself Your Be Yourself
Yourself Your Feel
Be Yourself
Drums
Figure
Instrument
Snare
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A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
Janet Weiss /
Appropriate
Myself Me People
Drums
Instrument
Play Drums
Trip
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With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.
Janet Weiss /
Band
Technique
Good Power Me
Adapt
Drummers
Focusing
Melodic
Million
Retain
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The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.
Janet Weiss /
Advice
Approach
Community
Guitar
Stuck
Video
Worthwhile
Wrong Way
Years
Antiquated
Played
Before
Center
Drum
Drummers
Wrong
In The Past
Neil
Technical
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