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Quotes by Musician
"People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band."
"Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think."
"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope."
"You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!"
"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom."
"The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future."
"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
"We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us."
"We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked."
"Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political."
"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out."
"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art."
"I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music."
"I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame."
"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."
"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind."
"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music."
"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."
"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."
"In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future."
"We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way."
Work,
"Only beginning to present itself over the horizon."
"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."
"It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album."
"Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show."
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