Neko Case Quotes - Page 2

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• There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.

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  Fun, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

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  Play

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• Sounds like to have space sometimes. It's good to give yourself a variety, or you just fatigue your ear. Like if somebody sings in the same register all the time, or if it's got the same feel the whole way through, I just find I get fatigued, so it's nice to break it up.

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  Nice, Space, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

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  Animal, Thinking, Empathy

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

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  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.

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  Growing Up, Helping, Grows

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The only ones that stand out to me are people like Jonathan Richman or Robyn Hitchcock, who can make you totally cry while their music is so funny and they're hilarious. They know they're great but they also don't think they're better than you and they really invite you into their show.

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  Thinking, People, Cry

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• Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

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  Boss

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

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  Home, Long, Band

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• Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

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  Kind

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• Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

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  Believe, Band, Want

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• I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

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  Nervous, Stage, Feels

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• I like to think that I'm not old yet.

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  Thinking

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• I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.

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  Thinking, Men, Guitar

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• I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

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  Champion, Important, Physical Activity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.

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  Hard Times, Important, Audience

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• I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

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  Remember

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other. Vanity is considered the worst possible sin. I've gotten better about having to describe things. If you're going to make a record and people are going to write about you, it's your responsibility to answer questions. It's validating - I'm just very clumsy.

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  Writing, Responsibility, People

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• There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

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  Song, Art, Touching

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• The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

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  Divorced, Humans

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much about the Freudian theory of dreams; it's probably more interesting than your average hippie dream dictionary, but it's got to be a lot deeper than that. It can't all be about sex all the time, so I don't know if Freud is right either.

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  Dream, Hippie, Thinking

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

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  Long, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

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  School, Good Friend, Who I Am

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• All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

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  People, Records, Want

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• When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”

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  Ideas, Doe, Want

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