Quotes by Nuno Bettencourt - Page 1

What motivates us is always new music.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
New Music
Music New Always
Motivates
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Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Cheat
Fate
Track
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I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Fans
Music Fans
Thinking
Anything Else
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Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Fan Mail
Fans
Mail
Needs
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I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Demos
Records
Demo
Go For It
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As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.
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There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Guitar Player
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It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.
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Bunch
Disease
Cure
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I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.
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Affected
People
Thinking
I Am People Think
Admit
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Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Guarantee
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Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Band
Oasis
Pilots
Radiohead
Stones
Love Good Live
Good Band
Stone
Temple
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My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Band
Los Angeles
Population
Rehearsing
Writing
Angeles
Current
Project
Los
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It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Me Know Hard
Exactly What
Studio
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I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.
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Band
Song
Way
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The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Touring
Wait
Mixed
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Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Baby
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Having A Baby
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Life Your Things
Having
The Hardest Thing
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I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Influence
New Stuff
Stuff
Influences
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Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Choices
Influence
Thinking
Extreme
Somewhat
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If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Guitar Music
Player
Skills
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While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Timing
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As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Everyday
Touring
Album
Everyday People
Opposed
Studio
Representative
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You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.
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Great Song
Monster
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I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.
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Black And White
Green
Album
Green Light Me
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Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.
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Interpreting
Change Myself Me
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As for the first guitar I actually bought, I believe it was a Cherry Red Kramer! I think I bought it because Eddie Van Halen played Kramer, and I remember it had a Rockinger tremolo on it.
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Van Halen
Cherry
Eddie
Halen
Van
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Rihanna is so into rock, and she gives me an empty canvas to work with. I get to do wild solos and crunch up the rhythms. It's rock, it's R&B, it's hip-hop, it's funky - all totally up my alley.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Canvas
Crunch
Empty
Funky
Rihanna
Alley
Wild
Solos
Rhythms
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It's always flattering when someone covers a song. I mean, when you're a young band, and you're unsigned - to think that someday people would want to cover one of your songs - it's just mind-blowing.
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Flattering
Mind Blowing
Someday
Always Your People
Covers
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In the U.K., we always had a special relationship with the audiences because it wasn't 'More Than Words' that broke us: it was 'Get The Funk Out' that broke first. That was what we had always dreamed of.
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Broke
Funk
Audiences
Dreamed
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If you spend long enough with a bunch of guys, things will inevitably start to rankle. You're going to hate the way the singer comes into the room and opens the curtains 'cos he's done it too fast or whatever.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Curtains
Inevitably
Opens
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We'd tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, 'You guys need to take a little time off.'
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Invincible
Little Time
You Guys
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I live in L.A., and whenever I get together with anybody to write, everybody is obsessed and fearful and wants to write a hit for everyone else. They wanna write a hit for Rihanna; they wanna write a hit for Katy Perry.
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Fearful
Get Together
Rihanna
Wanna
Hit
Everyone Else
Perry
Whenever
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There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Facets
Melody
Sentiments
Sitting
Song
Two
Writing
Clothing
Studio
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With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?
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Happy People
Unhappy
Opened
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I'm sad for younger bands that don't have a home that they know they can go to, like the twenty-five labels that used to be around that they know they can hang their hat and know that they'll give 'em three, four, five albums to develop.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Labels
Twenty Five
Hat
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It's hard being in a band. It's hard being in a relationship like that. But at the end of the day, when you have great fans, as corny as that sounds, if the fans show up and the passion that they have, they're the ones that make us want to keep going.
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Corny
Great Fans
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We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant or Poison. We were always outside the box. I think we had a little niche that nobody had - maybe the funkiness had something to do with it.
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Niche
Poison
Warrant
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I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn't really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Bizarre
Time Family Dad
Big Family
Guitars
Fender
Family Time Dad
Les
Paul
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Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.
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Mtv
Conquered
Everything Else
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We had a nightmare on our first album, and went through two producers. I decided, on the second album, to take the money that we were supposed to use for pre-production, and we went into a studio and cut the album with no producer. We finished the whole thing without telling the record company.
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Nightmare
Producer
Pre-Production
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Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.
Nuno Bettencourt / Guitarist
Busy
Porch
Believing
Desperately
Great Songs
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