Pavement Quotes
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Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
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It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
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Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.
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Usually the lyrics go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
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Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.
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I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.
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It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.
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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.
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That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
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I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.
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I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.
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I'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.
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If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
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I don't even think my voice is really good.
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George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
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I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.