Ariel Pink Quotes
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Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?
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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.
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I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
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I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
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As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.
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I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
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I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.
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It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.
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I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.
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I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.
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I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.
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The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.
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If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.
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I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.
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You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.
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I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.
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R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.
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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
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I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.
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I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.
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When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.
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If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.