Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

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• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Style
  • Military
  • Army

• I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Respect
  • Day
  • Learning

• I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Better
  • Sound

• So finger-bang, Pootie Tang/Burger Kang, Gucci Gang, dookie, dang/Charlamagne gonna hate anyway, doesn't matter what I say/Give me Donkey of the Day/What a way for 2018 to get underway/But I'm gonna say everything that I wanna say/Welcome to the slaughterhouse, bitch! (yeah)/Invite 'em in like a One A Day/I'm not done (preach)

  

  Eminem
  • Done
  • Hate
  • Gang

• The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

  

  Angus Young
  • America
  • Girl
  • Band

• I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Sympathy
  • Gang

• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Fear
  • Band
  • Rock

• The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Band

• One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Great
  • Band
  • Listening

• One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • Band
  • Star

• I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Band

• The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Work
  • Band

• I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • School
  • Band

• I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Writing
  • Band

• Belonging to the Gang of Eight carries massive responsibility in representing all 435 members of the legislature in very sensitive national security exercises.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Responsibility
  • Gang

• I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Song

• Now, when you've been in the band for three years, you get used to the position, in a sense. I don't think about it every day like, 'Oh my God, I'm the singer of Nightwish!'

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • God
  • Band
  • Position

• I never really thought I had much to add to the conversation that was occurring at 'MADtv.' I didn't know what I would do on the show. But I showed up, and I was surprised - it was fun to work on. Everybody there was really nice, and they seemed to be interested in my contributions.

  

  Andy Daly
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• Donald Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of president he'd be.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Stereotypes
  • Supporters

• These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Gang