Evan Dando Quotes

#1. I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

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#2. I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

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#3. I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

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#4. The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

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#5. I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

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#6. I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

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#7. Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

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#8. It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

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#10. When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

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#11. Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

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#12. I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

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#13. As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

Ryan Holmes

#14. When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

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#15. I have to make rock records occasionally.

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#16. When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

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#17. I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

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#18. The prophetic gift represents the Father's will and lays out the pattern.

Sherry K. White

#19. It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

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#20. My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

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#21. But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

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#22. CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

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#23. Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

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#24. For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

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#25. It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

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#26. I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

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#27. they would love to learn from him. I have to do what's best for my dancers, and if having tat twat bag at my studio is twat is best, then I'll do it.

Toni Aleo

#28. See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

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#29. I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

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#30. I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

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#31. But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

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#32. Tragically, it was Vince Masuoka who finally answered that lame question. "Grasshopper," he said, shaking his head wisely, on the morning when he overheard me turning down Miami Hoy for the third time. "When temple bell rings, crane must fly.

Jeff Lindsay

#33. Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

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#34. But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

John Nelson Darby

#35. Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

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