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I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.
Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.
Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.
I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.
People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.
We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.
Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.
When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'
Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.
I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.
Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable.
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument.
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.
Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.
I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.
I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.
I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.
It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.
Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!
I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.
I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
I can play in many sorts of categories because we've seen that with Led Zeppelin, all the acoustic stuff, and this, that and the other.
That's the way a musician is. You're isolated, in a weird way, because music is haunting you as much as it's loving you. It's non-stop.
Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.
It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.
Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.
I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.