Quotes by Mark Lanegan - Page 2

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.
Mark Lanegan / Musician
Fans
Groups
Writing
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It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.
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Glad
Me Long Voice
Quite A While
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Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.
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Collaborating
Solo
Me People Own
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I would only tell a story if I was being mercilessly heckled. That's the only time I would talk to the audience.
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Only Time
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Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.
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Figures
Six
Want
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I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.
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Musician
Peaceful
Records
Be Happy
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You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.
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Running
Fall
Risk
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I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.
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Spread
Ten Minutes
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I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.
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Extended Family
Family Community People
Extended
Rural
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I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past.
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Easiest
Easiest Thing
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Naturally, if I'm singing over really loud music, my approach is gonna be different than if I'm singing over some quiet acoustic music.
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Loud
Acoustic
Be Different
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I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.
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Beautiful
Guitar
Light
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I don't think I've ever gotten to the point where I sent out Christmas cards! But if I did, they would have to feature my pets, that's for sure.
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Cards
Feature
Pets
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I've always been haunted by the devastating voice and beautiful songs of Tim Hardin. I can't imagine anyone hearing him and not feeling the same.
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Devastating
Haunted
Tim
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It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like.
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Enjoyment
Satisfaction
Different Kind
Remake
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My favorite record, growing up, was 'Songs of the Haunted House,' a Disney record that was just wackiness. It's still one of my favorites, actually.
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Disney
Favorites
Haunted
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I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.
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Sticking
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There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.
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Models
Role Models
Singers
Love Better Know
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I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.
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Heard
Past
Wells
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The Trees was four complete nuts. We didn't have a damn thing in common except insanity. So we fought a lot. And we had two brothers - who fought like brothers.
Mark Lanegan / Musician
Damn
Insanity
Nuts
Brothers
Complete
Damn Thing
Except
Fought
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I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.
Mark Lanegan / Musician
Music Your People
Music People Sometimes
Attached
Spirits
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Have I tried a black pudding? I'll eat anything - I'm not finicky - but that's not to say it takes any courage to eat black puddings because I find them delicious.
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Delicious
Pudding
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The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.
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Behind You
Kind
Years
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The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.
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Doe
Judging
People
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You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.
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Play
Taken
Thinking
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I had a lot of jobs when I was younger. Where I grew up, there was a lot of agricultural jobs, so I worked on a lot of farms. I worked in the pea fields, harvesting peas.
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Farms
Peas
Agricultural
Harvesting
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I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.
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Finding Yourself
Roles
Thinking
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If Brian Eno wanted to make a record, I'd definitely clear some time in my calendar. John Cale, too. Those guys consistently make great records, always doing their own thing.
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Brian
Clear
Consistently
Time Great Always
Time Great Doing
Calendar
Definitely
Guys
Record
John
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I think there's something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it's what you've written or whether it's someone else's song. I find both satisfying in different ways.
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Different Ways
Satisfying
Therapeutic
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It's satisfying and gratifying to make your own music, but I personally don't get the same enjoyment out of the music that I make as I do from somebody else's music that I like.
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Enjoyment
Satisfying
Music Your Own
Gratifying
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When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.
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Mean
People
Play
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You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
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Moving
People
Way
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It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.
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Inspirational
Music
Names
People
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It was really difficult to sing; nobody showed me how to do it. I remember early Screaming Trees shows in the '80s when I'd walk away with a pounding headache from trying to sing way out of my range.
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Headache
Range
Walk Me Remember
Pounding
Screaming
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You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.
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Good Thing
Older
Necessarily
Realize
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I wanted 'Imitations' to be a fully realized record from start to finish, with a cohesive sound and a sequence that took you from one song to the other, just like I would with a record of original stuff.
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Sequence
Cohesive
Imitations
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I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.
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Moving
People
Thinking
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Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody's help in anything, and the smarter you are - and I'm not smart - or the tougher you are - and at times I thought I was pretty tough - the more trouble you have.
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Smarter
Tougher
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Me and Kurt Cobain were both listening to a bunch of Lead Belly and diggin' it. We thought, 'Let's do an EP of all Lead Belly songs.' We did a couple, and both of us were like, 'Nah, this is a bad concept.' We set it aside.
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Belly
Aside
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When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.
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Class
Guy
High School
Accent
Me Nothing Anything
Among
Barely
French
Passed
Speaking
Took
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Yeah, well, I guess Andy Williams would be considered by some to be schmaltzy, but to me, he's one of the greatest singers of all time. Just absolutely amazing. And if anyone doesn't believe me, just YouTube him. He's just one of a kind.
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Just One
Singers
Youtube
Andy
Time Amazing Believe
Williams
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When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.
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Arrangements
Dean
Frank
Andy
Martin
Perry
Sinatra
String
Williams
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Usually I get asked to do stuff that's cool, and if I ever can't do something, it's usually, because of logistics, I don't have the time for it. Rarely do I get ask to do something that I'd rather not do. I usually do it if I feel that it's something I can do.
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I have to have animals. They really make life worth living, and my world actually revolves around them. They know exactly when it's time to get up, exactly when they're supposed to get their food, and they let you know. Mine are right there in my face, first thing every morning.
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Worth Living
Life Time Morning
First Thing
Revolves
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I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.
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Purpose
Experience People Way
Connects
Defeats
Supposed
Whoever
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I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that listened to that kind of music. Just by chance, I was in detention, and one of the guys in the class was Van Conner... I started talking to him and found out that we listened to some of the same music.
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Detention
Punk Rock
Listened
Van
Young Kid
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When I was a kid, I got caught shoplifting by a store security guard in Ellensburg. The next time I saw that store guard was when I got thrown in jail again - this time for not paying court fees. The guy happened to be in jail, too, right next to me. That's what Eastern Washington is like - you never get too far away from anybody.
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Caught
Court
Eastern
Far Away
Fees
Jail
Next Time
Security
Thrown
Time Me Never
Washington
Guard
Paying
Store
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I was in Screaming Trees - I wasn't really interested in playing quiet music in a live setting. But I would get asked quite often to do a show or open for somebody, and I always said no. Finally, I was asked if I would open for Johnny Cash, and Johnny Cash was one of my dad's favorite heroes. So that's why I started doing solo shows.
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Cash
Quiet
Setting
Solo
Heroes
Music Dad Always
Asked
Finally
Johnny
Screaming
Trees
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Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness.
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Important
Interesting
People
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