Jon Spencer quotes

“When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.”
-- Jon Spencer

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“I was pissed off about a lot of things...so much shitty rock ’n’ roll that angered me, and Pussy Galore was kicking against that. With the Blues Explosion, there was some of that, but now I was into celebrating it.”
-- Jon Spencer

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“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”

“The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.”

“Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.”

“It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it”

“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”

“There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.”

“I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.”

Source : Interview with Lisa Henricksson, www.marieclaire.com. May 5, 2007.

“Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (2006). “Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

“I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.”

“He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.”