David First Quotes

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• If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain…
• I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a little better on…
• My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I…
• Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever.…
• Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is…
• Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when…
• I still have my "Anarchy in the UK" 7" [ Sex Pistols single]. I'm sure it gave us a context to think about as well…
• Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.
• To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.
• I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind…
• I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I…
• The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
• However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.
• We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs…
• Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of…
• I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie…
• We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.
• I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm…
• It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are…
• Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've…

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