Quotes by Lou Barlow - Page 2

Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Uncomfortable
Confrontational
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I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Feels
Healthy
Sick
Truthful
Happily
Till
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If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Classic
Heavy
Strings
Ukulele
Warm
Baritone
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I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Insecure
Dinosaur
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Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Reviews
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Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Agendas
Smarter
Good Someone Who
Impose
Listens
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All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Reflect
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To be doing interviews in 2006 for a band I was kicked out of in 1989 - a band that I never thought I would play for again - in a way, it's weird.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Interviews
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I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Bass
Drums
Specialist
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With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Loud
Rock Music
Feed
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Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Teenage
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I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Attempting
Method
Complete
Gravitate
Towards
Lyric
Musically
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I've been trying to cut down on caffeine because it seems to aggravate my middle-age-onset acne, but I'm too tired to care. I'm growing a beard to hide it.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Acne
Beard
Caffeine
Care
Seems
Tired
Aggravate
Cut
Hide
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I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Clever
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The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Ukulele
Time Long Long Time
Really Long Time
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I look forward to so many things about going to Japan. The shows are early. It's great! They're really early, so it helps make dealing with jetlag a little easier.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Japan
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Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Early Work
Harmony
Cassette
Screenwriter
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The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.'
Lou Barlow / Musician
Defend
Review
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NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I realized that NYC was a great place to play.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Critics
Intimidated
Music Fans
Nyc
Wonderland
Great Place
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Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Punk
Punk Rock
Tape
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I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Disabled
High School
Shy
Speak
Mentally
Teachers
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When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Fingers
Patterns
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I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!'
Lou Barlow / Musician
Me People Hear
Dropped
Hear People
Influenced
Label
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I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Real Job
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It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Middle Aged
Nursing
Unusual
Cool Man People
Middle-Aged Man
Slip
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Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Decent
Strings
Bought
Pickup
Regular
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'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Absolutely Nothing
Start Me People
Me Start People
Quite A Bit
Reference
Soundtrack
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It's weird to say, but Sebadoh is kind of Dinosaur Jr. Jr. My two bandmates in the early Sebadoh era, Jason Lowenstein and Jeff Gaffney, were huge Dinosaur fans. They were very influenced by Dinosaur.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Jason
Dinosaur
Influenced
Jeff
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I love making records, and part of really doing that and being happy about it is just that each time I've done something, I come to terms with what maybe is wrong with it, and then I move on to the next thing.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Being Happy
Love Time Done
Love Time Happy
Each Time
Move On
Next Thing
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If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Eccentric
Heat
Marketing
Mood
Velvet
Shrewd
Underground
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I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to 'make it' to the indie bands... so many bands... it can be overwhelming. But it seems healthy.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Enormous
Overwhelming
Indie
Music Community
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At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Classmates
Elementary School
Michigan
Orchestra
Elementary
Jackson
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I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Computers
Cheaper
Music Important People
Important Part
Recording
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One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Long Term
Dinosaur
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I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Busy
Confused
Grasping
Intention
Alienated
Chunk
Onto
Verbal
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From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Instruments
Lap
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For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Baggage
Considering
Massive
Preconceptions
Work Me People
Work Where Me
Bear
Bringing
Enter
Equals
For The People
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When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Song
Thinking
Writing
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After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Crude
Discovering
Feeding
Ramones
Cassette
Discovered
Mic
Plugging
Recorder
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