Jonathan Richman quotes
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“Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.”
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“They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.”
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“Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.”
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“Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.”
-- Jonathan RichmanSource : "Song: "Pablo Picasso"". 1997.
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“I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.”
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“Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.”
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“Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.”
-- Jonathan Richman
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“I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!”
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Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books
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“I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.”
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“A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.”
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