Pavement Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 Paverment were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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As a frontman I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.
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The opportunity to continue to play such a significant role on behalf of Petrobras in the Campos Basin and Espirito Santos regions is extremely gratifying. It is heartening to see that the quality of our service and engineering expertise has contributed to the positive working relationship we share with Petrobras.
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There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
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Traditionally, when we lived here in Portland, we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.
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I would live forever if I could, but not like this.
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There are reports of numerous casualties. It appears the freight train hit the vehicle (which had come off a motorway bridge), which then ploughed onto an adjoining line and was in collision with the passenger train.
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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.
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I live, eat and drink the Colin McNeil fight every day right now. I can think of nothing else and I agree with Colin that this will be the one to watch.
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What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
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The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
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Things tends to often consolidate like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.
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I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
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I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
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Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
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We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.