Arto Lindsay

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in…

— Arto Lindsay

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group…

— Arto Lindsay

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing…

— Arto Lindsay

Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.

— Arto Lindsay

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

— Arto Lindsay

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

— Arto Lindsay

I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels…

— Arto Lindsay

To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge…

— Arto Lindsay

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded…

— Arto Lindsay

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

— Arto Lindsay

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers…

— Arto Lindsay

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

— Arto Lindsay

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had…

— Arto Lindsay

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

— Arto Lindsay

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately…

— Arto Lindsay

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands…

— Arto Lindsay

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really…

— Arto Lindsay

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted…

— Arto Lindsay

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.

— Arto Lindsay

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to…

— Arto Lindsay

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do…

— Arto Lindsay

“How biological can this clock really be, if it doesn't get you going until midnight?”

— Arto Lindsay

“Let's make out like two bi-linguals.”

— Arto Lindsay