Epic Quote by Jason Pierce

“I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.”

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In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But in a way it's kind of harder to make pop music. It's like the more abstract you get with music, you get into that emperor's new clothes thing, where you can go anywhere, and just claim that your…

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When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

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You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can capture so…

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I don't make records for this medium with which we're going to sell it. The selling of it can never be more important than…

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I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know? And they…

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I want my records to be the most magnificent and glorious-sounding records, but also want them to be the most intense and fragile. And…

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