Pavement Quotes
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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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With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.
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I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.
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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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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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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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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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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've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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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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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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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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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
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I don't even think my voice is really good.
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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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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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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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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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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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I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.