Bucky Pope quotes
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“I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.”
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“It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.”
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“I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.”
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“It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.”
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“A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.”
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“I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.”
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“I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.”
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“Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.”
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“I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.”
Source : A. C. Green (1994). “Victory”, Creation House
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Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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Source : Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”
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“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
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“I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.”
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Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.