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I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek.
I'm sure that it's not good not to be around people.
Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.
I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.
People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.
There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.
I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.
Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.
It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.
Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.
When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.
I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain.
You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.
I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.
When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.
Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.
I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time.
Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.
Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch.
I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.
Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.
The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual... Ooh I like that..." That was the energy that kept me up.
I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.
When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me.
People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal.
Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music.
If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.