Alan Bishop

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[Wikipedia] Alan Bishop is an American musician best known for being the bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Sun City Girls. He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim. In the early 1980s Bishop played in the short-lived band Paris 1942 with Maureen Tucker of the V

Quotes by Alan Bishop

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

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Ancient

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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

Cell phone

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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…

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Done

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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.

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Break

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My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art…

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Art

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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.

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Hunts

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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…

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Capability

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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…

Alan Bishop

Concerned

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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…

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Asia

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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…

Alan Bishop

Certain

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