Chris Stein quotes
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“We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.”
-- Chris SteinSource : Source: time.com
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“CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.”
-- Chris SteinSource : Source: time.com
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“The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.”
-- Chris SteinSource : Source: time.com
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“In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.”
-- Chris SteinSource : Source: time.com
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“In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.”
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“A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.”
-- Chris Stein
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“Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1952). “Music and imagination”, Harvard Univ Pr
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“Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.”
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Source : "Newsflash: Allison Williams Has Arrived". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.
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