Alan Vega Quotes

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• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
• I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
• But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.
• Experience really does make you better, man.
• But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was…
• Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to…
• It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
• But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya…
• I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five…
• Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside…
• That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some…
• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally…
• We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it.…
• That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their…
• You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.
• People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so…
• John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and…
• That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm…
• I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard…
• And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because…

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