
Top 39 Pajo Quotes
#1. There we go, that word again: faith. Pajo fuckin loves it. I fuckin hate it. I hate it cos there's no way o trickin yerself into it, no amount o thinkin about it can get yeh there - yeh have it or yeh don't. And I don't.
Trevor Byrne
#2. My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason ... but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.
David Pajo
#3. To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.
David Pajo
#4. It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.
David Pajo
#5. Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.
David Pajo
#6. I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.
Mo Rocca
#7. I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.
David Pajo
#8. When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.
David Pajo
#9. We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.
David Pajo
#10. When we woke up every morning, one of our things was, "Let's go put a new sign in the back window of the van." Those are the different signs we had up in the back of our van, so that the people behind us could have something enjoyable to look at.
David Pajo
#11. Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.
David Pajo
#12. I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.
David Pajo
#14. Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#15. Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale
#16. There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.
David Pajo
#17. You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.
David Pajo
#18. I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.
David Pajo
#19. Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.
David Pajo
#20. Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.
Peter Kreeft
#21. When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.
David Pajo
#22. We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.
David Pajo
#23. I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.
David Pajo
#24. The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.
William A. Henry III
#25. The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.
David Pajo
#26. The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time.
Adrian McKinty
#27. I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
Christopher Meloni
#28. I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.
David Pajo
#29. Cake," said Mma Ramotswe quickly. "That is Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's great weakness. He cannot help himself when it comes to cake. He can be manipulated very easily if he has a plate of cake in his hand.
Alexander McCall Smith
#30. In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.
David Pajo
#31. As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.
David Pajo
#32. Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.
David Pajo
#33. As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.
David Pajo
#34. I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.
David Pajo
#35. Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.
David Pajo
#36. We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.
David Pajo
#37. You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.
Frederick Lenz
#38. We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.
David Pajo
#39. People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.
David Pajo
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