Arto Lindsay Quotes
- The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as…
- Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.
- It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed.…
- We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which…
- The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
- We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they…
- My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
- We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music…
- To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for…
- There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their…
- Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.
- It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
- It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
- I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something…
- I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many…
- I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
- Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them.…
- Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when…
- There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world…
- We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than…