Douglas Glenn Colvin Quotes
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I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.
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I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.
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I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.
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I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.
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I like California a lot more than New York these days.
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Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
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I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.
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I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
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Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.
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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
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I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"
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It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
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I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
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The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
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I used to be a hairdresser.
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
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When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
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I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
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No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.