Pavement Quotes
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In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.
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Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
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I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.
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When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.
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The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.
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If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
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I like visual imagery in my head.
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.
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I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
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When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
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I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.
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With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.
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We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.
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If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
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I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person.
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There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
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Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
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You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.