Ariel Pink Quotes
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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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I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year."
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I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.
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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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I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
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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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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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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 still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
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It's not illegal to be an asshole.
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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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I'm a product of my environment.
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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'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 interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.
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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'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.
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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 know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.
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I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
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I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.
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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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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 feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.