All BLACK FRANCIS Quotes about “Songs”

“My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.”
“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 can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.”
“The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.”
“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing”

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