Alan Vega Quotes

#1. That's what my music ... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

Alan Vega

#2. I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Jayne Meadows

#3. Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

Camille Paglia

#4. I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

Alan Vega

#5. I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Muhammad Ali

#6. And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.

Alan Vega

#7. You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

Alan Vega

#8. But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. Messages come to you every day of your life. You must be able to read them.

Jean Williams

#10. Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Alan Vega

#11. But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.

Alan Vega

#12. Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#13. Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Al Gore

#14. We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

Alan Vega

#15. That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

Alan Vega

#16. But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Alan Vega

#17. That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

Alan Vega

#18. I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Alan Vega

#19. I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

Alan Vega

#20. My life will never be extravagant; it will be simple, but I promise it will be filled with love, laughter, and stars released from jars, when I catch enough fireflies. ~Elijah Dirk "Epitaphs from the Afterlife

Autumn Rosen

#21. People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

Alan Vega

#22. Just because I'm breathing, doesn't mean I'm alive; vice versa.

Rea Lidde

#23. Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Alan Vega

#24. I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

Alan Vega

#25. John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

Alan Vega

#26. Sex is too sweet to speak about, you must only do it

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#27. That's something - you laugh about Eminem ... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

Alan Vega

#28. But, Eminem ... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

Alan Vega

#29. Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

Alan Vega

#30. We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

Alan Vega

#31. Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

Alan Vega

#32. Experience really does make you better, man.

Alan Vega

#33. It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Alan Vega

#34. One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

Kenny Chesney

#35. It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Alan Vega

#36. I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

Alan Vega