Pavement Quotes
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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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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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But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.
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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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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 never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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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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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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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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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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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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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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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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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
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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 don't even think my voice is really good.
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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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I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
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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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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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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.