The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
The idea of anyone collecting compact discs just seems bizarre to me.
There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right Boys and Girls in America Have such a sad time together.
Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.
The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous. ' It's a record I always go back to.
I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is [lesbian]. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay.
That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.
Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.