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 Copy Share Image
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,… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after. — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings. I love what I… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
