Top 14 Alex Scally Quotes
#1. It's the most dangerous world for bands nowadays because everybody's branding and trying to steal your vibe as soon as you do anything that anyone cares about. It's very weird.
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#2. Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.
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#3. It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.
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#4. I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.
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#5. A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones ... " and that's it.
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#6. Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
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#7. There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.
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#8. It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.
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#9. Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.
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#10. I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.
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#11. All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.
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#12. The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.
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#13. When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.
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#14. Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.
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