Trevor Dunn Quotes

#1. I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

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#2. I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

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#3. Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

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#4. I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

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#5. It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

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#6. Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

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#7. I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

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#8. The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

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#9. I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.

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#10. Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

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#11. Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

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#12. After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

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#13. If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

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#14. NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.

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#15. I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

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#16. Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

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#17. Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

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#18. I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.

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#19. I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

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#20. I take all of my music seriously and personally.

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#21. Bungle is definitely a priority right now.

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#22. It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

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#23. I need to broaden my horizons.

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#24. I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

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#25. I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

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#26. But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

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#27. I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

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#28. If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated.

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#29. Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

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#30. There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

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#31. I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

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#32. Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

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#33. Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

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