Eugene Chadbourne Quotes

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• Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it…
• There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
• I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud,…
• I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy…
• I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked…
• I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen…
• I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take…
• People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to…
• Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just…
• There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

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