Alan Light quotes

“A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.”
-- Alan Light

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“You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.”
-- Alan Light

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“After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.”
-- Alan Light

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.”
-- Alan Light

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.”
-- Alan Light

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.”

“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?”

“I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.”

“I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.”

“I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.”

“I don't know if it's possible to live the rock'n'roll lifestyle and still be romantic.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”

“I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.”

“Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus”

Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes