Arto Lindsay quotes
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“The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.”
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“Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.”
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“It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.”
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“The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.”
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“We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.”
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“We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.”
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“My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.”
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“I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.”
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.”
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“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”
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Source : Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
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