Les Claypool Quotes

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• You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.
• Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
• Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
• I'm a big believer in spontaneity.
• Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities…
• In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for…
• To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.
• I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?
• Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
• I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
• For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
• I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it…
• I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as…
• Music in general is looking for something new overall.
• My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all…
• San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money…
• We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.
• You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it…
• More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope…
• For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it…

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