Musician Quotes

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.
What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.
When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.
I grew up in the early '70s in New England.
I have to reign myself in a lot.
I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.
I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.
I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
«first‹previous4950515253545556575859next›last»
Total Records : 54786

Related Books

Share to your friends..

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive