J Mascis Quotes

#1. Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

Henry Rollins

#2. Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

Sam Elliott

#3. I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

J Mascis

#4. When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

J Mascis

#5. Consider the statistics that African American Males are stopped by the police more often, convicted for crimes more often and draw prison more often and draw longer prison sentences more often than their white counterparts.

The Prophet Of Life

#6. People have to do what they want to do.

J Mascis

#7. 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

J Mascis

#8. I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

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#9. Your death comes.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. All labels are offensive in some way.

J Mascis

#11. For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Marilyn Manson

#12. I've never liked rehearsing too much.

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#13. It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

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#14. I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.

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#15. I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.

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#16. I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

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#17. Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

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#18. Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

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#19. I feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia.

Lindsay Sloane

#20. Worse than that, however, was the CFO, a dapper-suited, neat-haired new age carapace containing an uninhibited misogynistic bogan, whose actual words to me, in concert with my boss in the same room were: 'To be successful you have to accept that weekends are for families.

Annabel Crabb

#21. I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Paula Creamer

#22. It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

J Mascis

#23. Why did I want her so fucking much? Why couldn't I push her away like I did everyone else? Why couldn't I breathe when I saw her?

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#24. Falconer was wearing his street clothes - jeans, a black turtleneck and an empty shoulder holster under his armpit. Cowboy boots. Little bit of beard stubble. John wondered if the guy would walk from one end of the street to the other without winding up covered in bitches.

David Wong

#25. Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.

J Mascis

#26. Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

Robert Fripp

#27. You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

J Mascis

#28. Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

#29. I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

J Mascis

#30. I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

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#31. That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#32. I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

J Mascis

#33. I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.

Carl Weathers