Record Quotes
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I always just wanted to have the wherewithal to make another record. I never really dreamt of fortune or fame, because it seemed so unlikely. I'm much more interested in people's perceptions of me than what my life is really like. It appears that some people think it's all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it's not. I'm making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.
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The success definitely shocked me a little, I can’t believe how people gravitated to it. It’s been an amazing record, I definitely didn’t think that it was going to get to the level that it got, but I’m happy that it resonated.
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I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.
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A record deal is my dream.
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I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving.
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We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse, it's no more than 15, 20 minutes. We don't have a pen and paper. We bounce off each other.
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Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.
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I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.
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My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before, and they were so excited about this idea of an animated character which is singing legitimate music. It's not a comedy record, it's a legitimate record. And they really jumped on board. So, we've got our Facebook page up, we'll be jumping on Twitter very soon, and sort of be creating Haley outside of American Dad.
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
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It's the worst feeling, going into your record label when you haven't got a hit. It was like: 'Maybe you've lost it.' And, once you're done, that's it. There's no support, or anyone to help you.
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On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.
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I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
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Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
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My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.
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There were actually times where I thought, 'Do people even remember us? Are people gonna be interested in hearing what we put out next? 'And, you know, there were times I felt like, 'Are there going to be people out there waiting for this record?'. So we kind of live in a bubble, in a sense. We're very closed off to that whole world of thinking about those kinds of things.
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I want to personally thank all the participants in this outing for providing a record amount of support to benefit children in need.
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The show gave us the taste of working together again, and we decided to record an album. So we started writing and it slowly came together over the years.
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I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.
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I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.
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I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think after the disappointment of that record for myself with the lack of energy and the way the record came out, I would say that was probably the low point of The Prodigy.
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It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.
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I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.
