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  • I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

    "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.
  • I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

  • I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

    Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.
  • I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

  • I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

    "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.
  • People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

  • I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 23, 1998.
  • I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

  • But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

  • They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

  • I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.

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    Source: thequietus.com
  • I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

    Song: Speedy Marie, Album: Teenager of the Year, 1994
  • You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

    Interview with Eric Olsen, blogcritics.org. September 9, 2002.
  • That's the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them. That's more important even then what their background is or what they've done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

    Source: www.fuse.tv
  • I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.

    Source: www.fuse.tv
  • I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 23, 1998.
  • You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But it's not that easy to just replicate. Some people think, "Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before." But it just doesn't work like that. It's a lot more mysterious or slippery.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

  • When we've got something to say to the world, we will. I'm really happy that people are interested. "So, what's up with the Pixies record? So, what's up with the Pixies record?" One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, "I just got done telling you no, there's nothing to report."

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

    "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.
  • As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

  • I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

    "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.
  • I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.

    Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.
  • For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

    "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.
  • I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

  • There's more to life than listening to rock music.

    "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.
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    Black Francis

    • Born: April 6, 1965
    • Occupation: Singer-songwriter