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title: "2 Acoustics Quotes By Michael Gira"
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> [I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-m-just-as-comfortable-performing-solo-with-just-my-acoustic-guitar/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/michael-gira-15235_acoustic-guitar_i-m-just-as-comfortable-performing-solo_413651.jpg)

> [When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/when-i-first-started-doing-the-quieter-more-acoustic-material-in/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8a/michael-gira-15235_acoustics_when-i-first-started-doing-the-quieter-m_2203486.jpg)

## More by Michael Gira

> [I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-have-my-own-record-company-i-have-to-answer-to-god-basically-i-m/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [It's good that people come to the shows because there's nothing fashionable about Swans. Never has been, really. We've never been part of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/it-s-good-that-people-come-to-the-shows-because-there-s-nothing/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/the-sexuality-of-children-there-s-a-lot-friction-there-that-tension/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-wanted-to-challenge-myself-and-move-into-something-new-i-felt-that/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/when-i-walk-around-new-york-now-there-are-so-many-ghosts-i-find-it/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-m-just-as-comfortable-performing-solo-with-just-my-acoustic-guitar/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-m-a-producer-in-the-old-school-way-not-just-some-slacker-working-on/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-like-loud-electric-guitars-because-i-like-how-you-can-just-lose/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [“An oiled young stud does sit-ups on his Soloflex machine, eviscerates himself with an impossibly honed and gleaming kitchen knife, flings his dangling intestines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/an-oiled-young-stud-does-sit-ups-on-his-soloflex-machine-eviscerates/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-never-could-read-foucault-i-find-philosophy-tedious-all-of-my/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [“I like Sade. I’m re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-like-sade-i-m-re-reading-juliette-i-skip-the-philosophy-and-read/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-don-t-throw-my-body-down-on-the-stage-at-all-anymore-because-i-m/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/many-of-the-songs-were-written-as-a-way-of-paying-tribute-to-specific/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [I don't want to sound like everybody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-don-t-want-to-sound-like-everybody-else/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

> [I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gira/i-m-pretty-confident-that-people-are-going-to-come-along-for-the-ride/)

[Michael Gira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gira/)

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