Evan Dando Quotes
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I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
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When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
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I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.
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I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
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I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.
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I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.
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I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.
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I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.
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I have to make rock records occasionally.
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I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.
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But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
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It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
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Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.
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You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.
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So many times I thought to myself, man, I never want to do drugs again. But I would never sacrifice any experience I've ever had on them, and I am not remorseful that I've done them. I would like to get more and more away from drugs.
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CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
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Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.
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See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.
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I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.
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I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
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I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.