Kim Thayil Quotes

I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

Kim Thayil Soundgarden

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• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

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• I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

  

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• Hits and flops are overrated.

  

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• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

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• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  

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• You discover yourself through the research of your work.

  

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• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

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• I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

  

  Kim Thayil Soundgarden
  • Band
  • Angry
  • Role