Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

#1. It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

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#2. What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

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#3. There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

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#4. Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

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#5. We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

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#6. I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

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#7. I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

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#8. Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

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#9. It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

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#10. Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

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#11. I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

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#12. We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

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#13. Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

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#14. I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

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#15. Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

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#16. But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

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#17. I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

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#18. It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

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#19. It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

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#20. We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

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#21. We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

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#22. If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

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#23. Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

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#24. I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

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#25. There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

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