Pavement Quotes
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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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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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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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When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
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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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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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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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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 don't even think my voice is really good.
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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 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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You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.
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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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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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I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
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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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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'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.
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I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
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If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.