Alan Bishop Quotes

• My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others. I'm not satisfied with the state of humanity. If I must live on the same planet as Mr and Mrs out of touch, I will do whatever I can to jolt their zombie-ass skulls from the upside-down veal market they hang from.

  Alan Bishop

  Art, Skulls, Challenges

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• I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings. I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me. I hear things my own way and I present them. Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.

  Alan Bishop

  Sound, Way, Music Love

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• Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

  Alan Bishop

  Band, Thailand, Karaoke

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

  Alan Bishop

  Needs, Done, Language

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.

  Alan Bishop

  Song, Stupid, Important

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

  Alan Bishop

  Thinking, People, Perception

  Interview with Andy Beta, believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

  Alan Bishop

  Reality, Karaoke, Modern

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1st, 2008.

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• Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.

  Alan Bishop

  People, Males, Bars

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". July 1, 2008.

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• There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

  Alan Bishop

  Effort, Break, Thai

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

  Alan Bishop

  Clothes, Phones, Cells

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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