Eric Bachmann quotes

“My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.”
-- Eric Bachmann

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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“I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.”
-- Eric Bachmann

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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“I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.”
-- Eric Bachmann

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“As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.”
-- Eric Bachmann

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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“I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.”
-- Eric Bachmann

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“I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?”
-- Eric Bachmann

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“It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.”
-- Eric Bachmann

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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“I don't like to think about stuff that's boring.”
-- Eric Bachmann

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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“In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.”
-- Eric Bachmann

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

#Knows Quotes

“What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.”

Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin

“It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.”

“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 12, 2014

“I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.”

“Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.”

“It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986

“Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.”

Source : "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”