Pelle Almqvist quotes

“So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.”
-- Pelle Almqvist

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“You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.”
-- Pelle Almqvist

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“I don't have to promise myself anything. That's all part of the wonderfulness that is me.”
-- Pelle Almqvist

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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”

“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”

“In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.”

“I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.”

“[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.”

“I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.”

“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”

“For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.”