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It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.
Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.
When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.
One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one
That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.
I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.
Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.
If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.
If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.
Its disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and Im comfortable with myself.
I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.
There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
No one wants critical, 'You can't do this or that' religion. People want authentic love, and that's what we are displaying.
There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.
Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.
If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?
There are only two types of people in this world - the people who do the DOING, and the people who have stuff done to them.
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.
Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.
I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!
I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.