Pavement Quotes
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If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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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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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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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I'd like to see it happen for them; I just think its going to take a little while to get the clientele built up.
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I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.
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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.
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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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The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.
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Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
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Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
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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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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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We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.
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I know the world doesn't need maybe another of a particular type of song - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.
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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 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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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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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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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.
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But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
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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.