Stephin Merritt Quotes - Page 2

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• My mother says I have boring percussion.

  Stephin Merritt

  Mother, Boring, Percussion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are so many clichés in the world, especially in music, that it's a never-ending creative font to just bring two of them together and let them interact.

  Stephin Merritt

  Creative, Together, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb.

  Stephin Merritt

  Surf, Vocal

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• My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates. Of course, that's completely preposterous, but that's how I grew up. What is the norm by which to judge wordiness? I think I'm less wordy than Madonna.

  Stephin Merritt

  Mother, Thinking, Judging

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Interesting, Intention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.

  Stephin Merritt

  Engineering, Quality, Done

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• I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's only about ten things you can do with one note in a string section. But a lone violin is continuously changing textures.

  Stephin Merritt

  Lone, Variety

  Source: pitchfork.com

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