Alan Vega Quotes

• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  Alan Vega

  Country   Emo   Texas  

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• I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

  Alan Vega

  Suicide   Entertainment   Said  

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• That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

  Alan Vega

  Real   Men   Thinking  

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• You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

  Alan Vega

  Men   Laughing   Starting  

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• That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  Alan Vega

  Halfway There   Long   Promise  

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• It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

  Alan Vega

  Father   Boys   Years  

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• Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

  Alan Vega

  Nice   Believe   Men  

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• And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.

  Alan Vega

  Stars   Kids   Dark  

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• But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

  Alan Vega

  Falling In Love   Rap   Gangsta  

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• That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

  Alan Vega

  Nice   Today   Buttons  

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• But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.

  Alan Vega

  Suicide   Fingerprints   Courses  

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• I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

  Alan Vega

  Couple   Years   Able  

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• People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

  Alan Vega

  Rapper   People   Way  

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• John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

  Alan Vega

  Blow   Listening   Coltrane  

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• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  Alan Vega

  Listening   Jazz   Classical Music  

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• I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

  Alan Vega

  Real   Men   People  

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• But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

  Alan Vega

  Space   Guy   Cash  

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• Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

  Alan Vega

  Men   Thinking   Numbers  

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• I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

  Alan Vega

  Song   Couple   Dark  

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• It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

  Alan Vega

  Saws   Pops   Changed  

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• That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

  Alan Vega

  Rap   Hip Hop   Records  

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• We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

  Alan Vega

  Men   Years   Get Better  

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• Experience really does make you better, man.

  Alan Vega

  Men   Experience   Doe  

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