Jamie Hince Quotes
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Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.
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I start the day off with a pot of coffee, and I read all the newspapers online, then I delve around for new music.
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One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.
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Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.
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There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.
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In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into anarcho-punk bands that nobody had heard of.
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Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'
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I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.
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I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands that are a tribute to the 1970s or the Nineties. I want to experiment with guitar music more.
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When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.
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I was vegan for about 20 years.
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Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.
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After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.
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Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
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Did groupies ever interest me? No. I'm a pleasure seeker, and I like going bananas, but that's never appealed to me. I always thought it was a little bit naff.
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I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.
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I panic when we're on tour and feel the world can leave you behind. When we finish touring, I feel like I'm running to catch up and find out what's been happening.
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I admire a lot of photographers, but I feel very disconnected from them at the same time. I don't feel I employ any technique like these people in my work. I guess if there's any influence from any of these photographers, it's this: They were concerned only with beauty. Not with 'cool.' I hope I'm doing the same.
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When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
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I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.
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'The Tin Drum' is one of my favourite books of all time - I've probably got 12 or 15 copies with different covers, different translations - but it's also just about my favourite film.
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It's a beautiful thing how happy you can be with a few friends, some beaten up guitars, a fire, and a couple of fields.
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Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you're wearing a disguise.
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I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.