Yannis Philippakis Quotes

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.

Yannis Philippakis

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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

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• These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

  

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• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  

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• To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

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• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

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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.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Perfect
  • Rock
  • Humanity