Evan Dando Quotes
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I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.
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I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
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See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.
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The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
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I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.
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CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
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I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
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It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.
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But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
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Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.
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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
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Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.
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When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
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I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.
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I have to make rock records occasionally.
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
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I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
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When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
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I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.
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I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
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I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
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I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.
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I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.
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You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.
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A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.
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It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
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I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.
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Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
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