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Kevin Shields

(1963) Musician

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Kevin Shields is a musician.

Quick Facts About Kevin Shields

Born: May 21, 1963
Profession: Musician

About Kevin Shields

[Wikidata] Irish musician and record producer... | [Wikipedia] Kevin Patrick Shields is an Irish musician who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) established Shields as a pioneering figure in the shoegaz

Quotes by Kevin Shields

The corporate system is fully psychopathic, and any creative people who enter into business with any of these organizations come up against…

Business

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I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same…

Mean

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You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's…

Done

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I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

Bass

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We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort…

Cooperation

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I don't have a role model, but I certainly have always enjoyed Neil Young. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to…

Couple

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As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were…

Done

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The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

Attitude

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I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

Age

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I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Bounds

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When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of…

Amount

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When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the…

Bass

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The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of…

All kinds

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I had the time to take the original analog tapes and fix all the things I didn't like, so all I left…

Analog

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Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.

Always wrong

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In reality, there's a limit to putting a record out yourself. When it comes to working with major record companies in the…

Company

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I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general. I always…

Birth

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The technical reason why remastering is valuable is because, up to around the late 90s, there was this endpoint called zero, and…

Late

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Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and…

Delay

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I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

Floating

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Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope…

Deaf

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Oftentimes, when people cut a record from analog tape to vinyl, they digitize the music first; I did a little investigating and…

Analog

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A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of…

Ability

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Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and…

Garbage

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Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other…

Analog

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