If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song … - Stephin Merritt

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I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

Stephin Merritt

If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.

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I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.

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Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

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I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

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There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.

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The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use synthesizers as their main instrument and take it seriously was probably Silver Apples. And they sure didn't know what they were doing, and they sure don't sound like anything else.

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