Mascis Quotes

#1. Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Tom Robbins

#2. 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

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

J Mascis

#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

Eric Schmidt

#10. All labels are offensive in some way.

J Mascis

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

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

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

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

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

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#16. 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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#17. That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

Lisa Jewell

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

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

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#23. If God does not leave a blade of grass, a flower, or a small leaf of a tree without His good providence, will He leave us?

John Of Kronstadt

#24. 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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#25. The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

#26. 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