Yannis Philippakis Quotes
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
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I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.
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When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
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I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.
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By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
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I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
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I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
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I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.
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Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
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You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.
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I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
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I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.