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  • I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

    Artist   Men   Thinking  
  • I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

  • With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

    Song   People   What If  
  • I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else.

  • When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

  • I'm not even sure who my audience is.

  • Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

    Rocks   Alive   Sweden  
  • When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

  • Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

    Sound   Emily  
  • There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".

    Europe   Elements   Radio  
  • I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

    Guitar   Mellow  
  • People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.

    Song   Thinking   Ideas  
  • The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.

    Player   Thinking   Rocks  
  • I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

    Chinese   Quality   Sound  
  • I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious what they've listened to and what they're going for. When I was sixteen I listened to Yardbirds records and thought, "God, this is great." It's gratifying to think that people listened to Television albums and felt the same.

  • I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

    Lying   Writing   Rocks  
  • I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

  • What's really fun is to write under different names.

    Fun   Writing   Names  
  • I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

    Kissing   Media   Band  
  • All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

    Sound   Littles   Stuff  
  • I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

    People   Way   Sincerely  
  • I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

    Academic   Clown  
  • Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.

  • I'm kind of proud of that little record! I mean I've heard about a million other records that have come out since then by all these groups around here and there and I really like 'Little Johnny Jewel'.

    Mean   Jewels   Groups  
  • I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!

    Song   Real   Kids  
  • I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

    Moon   Thinking   Records  
  • I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.

  • You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

    Expression   Sound   Kind  
  • Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

    Song   Writing   Practice  
  • Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

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