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I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Kristin Hersh
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Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
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I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.
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Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
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I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
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My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
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Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
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I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.
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I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
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Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
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You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.
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We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.
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