Pixies Quotes
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It does just boil down to music.
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I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.
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I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
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I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
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Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
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It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.
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Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
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That's the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them. That's more important even then what their background is or what they've done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.
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I won't necessarily make new music because when you make a record there are these great expectations on the side of the record company who are going to produce your record, promoters that are going to do your shows. They want you to do interviews, they want you to play shows. I mean, they want it to be a campaign.
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Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.
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The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.
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The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.
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People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
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I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.
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I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.
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I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
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I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
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As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.
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It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!
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Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.
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I think people are well aware of our impact on the industry.
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It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
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When you're a creative person and you create art with other people, whether you're married to them or not, you're going to run into creative conflicts. If you're a couple, certain inhibitions and barriers are gone. I have those barriers with other people, but I don't have them with my wife.
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I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.
