The Smashing Pumpkins Quotes
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What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
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I take my craft very seriously.
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Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.
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Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.
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It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.
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But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.
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Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.
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When I'm at home I practice everyday.
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If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.
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I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.
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There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
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Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
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Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.
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It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.
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My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
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It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.
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We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.
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I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.