Craig Finn Quotes

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• I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

  Craig Finn

  Girl, Bars, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

  Craig Finn

  People, Maps, Wanted

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• There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

  Craig Finn

  Girl, Boys, Night

  "Song: "Stuck Between the Stations" ("Boys and Girls in America")". 2006.

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• There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before.

  Craig Finn

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.

  Craig Finn

  Ideas, Giving, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general - is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, "Hey, I've felt that exact way as a human being," and there's no easy way to describe it.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Art, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts.

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  Song, Ties, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

  Craig Finn

  Heart, Thinking, Guitar

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.

  Craig Finn

  Song, People, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?

  Craig Finn

  Song, People, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Real, College

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

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• One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Crazy, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.

  Craig Finn

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Coffee, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.

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  Real, Writing, Hair

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• It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up on the Grateful Dead, which I certainly did, you listened to 10 million bootlegs. But you realize that American Beauty has some really tight, well-arranged songs that aren't meandering.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Grateful, Night

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

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• One of the things you do in a band is the more you stay together, the more you play to your strengths.

  Craig Finn

  Together

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• Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.

  Craig Finn

  Memories, Writing, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My big thing is to get onstage sober. Whatever happens from there happens. But you get onstage drunk and it's not going to be good. It takes a while. I have to sing a lot, so I can only drink so much. So most nights it's fine; even if I drink as much as I possibly can, I can't get that drunk.

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  Night, Drunk, Sober

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• When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

  Craig Finn

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Band

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• When we started the band, I was really like, "We just want to make a lot of records" - not quite unlike Guided By Voices' schedule. I've always thought that our live thing is what we do best, and having a really robust, big catalog makes for the most interesting live band - especially with people, at this point, traveling to see us night after night. For us to have almost 100 songs to pull from is a really cool thing. The sets can be different. They can be invigorating on an intellectual level. I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

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  Song, Night, People

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• Ray Cappo never tried to convert me into a Krishna, although one of his cohorts probably did. I think it was just about being wrapped up in this thing. Hardcore, at one point, meant everything to me. Now you look back, and I still think it's cool, but to some extent I grew out of it. Other things became a bigger priority for me.

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  Thinking, Priorities, Krishna

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• If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.

  Craig Finn

  Needs, Break, Enjoy

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Years, Waiting

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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