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"My earliest memory as a child was when I was 2 years old and had scarelet fever. I was hallucinating and I was having my picture taken. I had a sweater and I was really miserable and there was this guy zooming in and out."
"I just sat aound reading or listening to music. That year alone, I think I matured aboiut five years.It's a long time to go without talking to people, and it really put a lot of things into perspective for me"
"It's funny, 'coz I started getting obsessed with rock'n'roll when I was about 12. I'd read reviews and go buy records"
"Michael said he liked my eyebrows. He claims to this day that was the reason he wanted us to get together.
"When I was about 13 I had just started to be a bad teenager, drinking beer and smoking pot. One of my best friends had an older brother who was just insane,. He was crazy. So we'd go over to his house and smoke pot and listen to records."
"I worked in a music store, and all the musicians I met were assholes, so I never wanted to be in a band. Michael convinced me it was all right."
"American bands don't get signed. American bands dont get promoted. American bands don't get played on the radio."
"We get compared to the Byrds every day. I knew that Jam had Rickenbackers before I knew the Byrds had Rickenbackers. We've been compared to everyone from Jethro Tull to the Psychedelic Furs."
"I don't think anyone liked us. I'm glad I got to play Shea Stadium, it was cool. But the other dates were just boring."
"I was kinda stand-offish at college. I looked down my nose at everyone. All these people were into Grateful Dead and Hot Tuna an Little Feet."
"I still hear 'Murmur, best thing you've ever done'. Well, you just wiped out the Eighties and Nineties for me, thank you very much."
"Pop music for most people is really bland. You don't have to understand it. It's just this boring little nothing."
"I think in many ways we're much more down to earth than many rock bands, because we don't go in for that rock'n'roll myth."
"It's funny, because for years we would make a record and go on tour and do like 3 or 4 new songs. And every time, the next year's hit single was one of the new songs. The next year they're screaming for that one they didn't notice the time before."
"Our intuition has been more valuable to us than any of the great words of wisdom passed on to us by the damned record company."
"I guess I really focus to detail more than the grand picture, and that detail becomes the words to the song. And given the detail, I guess it's left up to the listener to spot it and put a frame around it."
"The whole album is about chaos. I've become very interested in chaos."
"I recognize when the caricature is getting out of hand and I pull back and recognize when it needs to go further and I push it."
"Halfway through the tour we were so burned out by it we were just on stage going through the motions. We really felt we were robbing the audience of what they deserve."
"I think we made the perfect record we could in that style. And the new songs, because of the way we wrote them, wouldn't have lent themselves to that big AOR thing."
"I've never written an outright love song, and I'm not sure that of the eleven songs on this record I've written an outright love song, but I'm trying."
"The last 2 records of ours have been fairly political albums. And I wanted to move away from that, so as not to pigeonhole myself as a political writer."
"I like my life. I'm 31, I'm one-fourth of an incredibly successful pop band, I sit around, people come to me, talk to me, photograph me."
"I went to the Grammys one time, and the show itself is a stultifyingly boring piece of shit"
"It's out of time, out of place. It's not really fitting in with what's going on in music right now."
"Corporate sponsorship is the way of the world, and it's futile to fight it, but I don't have to like it."
"The Feedback I've gotten from that alone was more than anything else I've ever done. I was getting mail from countries that I couldn't even find on the map."
"This is us taking a chance. People are either going to love it or freak out."
"Well, I would never have thought we'd last 13 years. But from the very beginning, we always said that R.E.M. was only the four of us, and it wasn't three of us with another guitar player and another bass player or something like that"
"Every record you make you get lost somewhere. This felt really strong right to the end."
"I have a feeling that if one of us ever decided to quit, that the other three would have gone on, but with a different name."
"I would like to make one record a year. We write enough songs but we've got to do press, we've got to do videos, we're going to be touring."
"You know what would be nice, if we just did the last 3 records live. You know, do Out Of Time, Automatic For The People, and the new one."
"The success of Nirvana proves that kids like hard rock and they don't have to have their rock stars dressed lik etheir grandmothers in teased hair and leather pants."
"I love touring, and everyone else does too to different degrees."
"I'e done my share of whatever there is to do, but I just spent my entire life trying to get out of situations where I had to follow other people's rules or orders, getting out of school and all that, and I just couldn't imagine harnessing myself to a drug drealers schedule."
"Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans."
"So far everything is electric guitar and loud." Links
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