Doug Martsch Quotes

#1. I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

Peter O'Toole

#2. Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

Susan Mallery

#3. It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.

Doug Martsch

#4. People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.

Doug Martsch

#5. The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma

Henry James

#6. A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.

Roman Payne

#7. Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

Doug Martsch

#8. I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.

Doug Martsch

#9. My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.

Doug Martsch

#10. Maybe one day, before the universe died, Unkar Plutt would take a bath.

Alan Dean Foster

#11. Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.

Kate Forsyth

#12. For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

Doug Martsch

#13. I have friends. I want more from you than that. I'm a selfish guy, Jane. If I can't be your lover, if I can't have all of you, then I don't want anything.

Rachel Gibson

#14. To me, Modest Mouse is one of the best bands ever. I actually wasn't surprised that they made it big. It's always weird to see it happen, and it happens so fast, all of a sudden songs are in the background on TV.

Doug Martsch

#15. If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

Doug Martsch

#16. I was not born with tremendous ambition.

Roger Moore

#17. There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

Doug Martsch

#18. I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Doug Martsch

#19. When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.

Doug Martsch

#20. If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

Doug Martsch

#21. That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

Doug Martsch

#22. Chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority.

Beth Fantaskey

#23. There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

Doug Martsch