February 2012
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“We’ve seen a seriously fucking great band. Arctic Monkeys, how about those guys?...”
– The Strokes on Arctic Monkeys (via arcticgaykeys)
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“Wherever Richey is, he’s made his own choice and he’s doing what he wants....”
– Nicky Wire (via blackmthedistortion)
January 2012
7 posts
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“I think there’s something that you just feel is missing from your life. I think...”
– Richey Edwards - Manic Street Preachers (via luxembourgerqueen)
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“You don’t wanna sweat in your jeans and wear them the next day. Some people call...”
– Matt Helders (via youonlygoaround)
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“I’m not going to come out and be arrogant, or anything. I just want to let my...”
– Miles Kane
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“I’m not afraid to do pop. Pop is cool as fuck if you get it right.”
– Miles Kane
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“I don’t know really. Just that I made some great albums, had a laugh, good...”
– Miles Kane (On how he would like to be remembered)
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“Yeah, he loves it man! Of course. We’re big fans of what we both do.”
– Miles Kane (On if Alex Turner has heard his LP)
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“I couldn’t see us being like Coldplay, it’d just be fucking boring. You tour...”
– Jamie Cook (via youonlygoaround)
November 2011
20 posts
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“It’s the most explosive, intense rock phenomenon ever seen. I am in awe...”
– Rivers Cuomo on Dave Grohl
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Interviewer: MGMT have become quite famous over the past two years, but some lyrics on your first album poke fun at fame and rock excess. Do you ever feel you're becoming the kind of person you were making fun of?
Andrew: We did become the people we were making fun of -- but you can't blame us. We were a group of guys in their mid-20s touring around the world and of course we are going to party. But after a while we all learned that you can't just keep doing that over and over, and the new record addresses those issues.
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“For us it’s really just about the music and getting people to hear what we...”
– Andrew Vanwyngarden
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“You can’t really avoid [the need to sell records] but I’d like it to be a...”
– Jamie Hince
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“The Kills is our life.”
– Alison Mosshart
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“We want to leave a mark. We want to change something. Selling loads of records...”
– Alison Mosshart
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“She’s like another part of me. When I look at her on stage it’s like looking at...”
– Jamie Hince (On Alison Mosshart)
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“We’re not trying to preserve our friendship, we’re trying to preserve our art.”
– Jamie Hince (on his relationship with Alison Mosshart)
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“It’s the creative thing that keeps us together. We’ve become quite volatile with...”
– Jamie Hince (on his relationship with Alison Mosshart)
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“We decided that art and music were the most important things to us, in an almost...”
– Jamie Hince (on his relationship with Alison Mosshart)
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“I like music to mean something. I don’t care if I know what it means but I want...”
– Jamie Hince
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“I think it’s just as important what you leave off a record as what you add to...”
– Jamie Hince
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“A good show is being totally honest. You reach that dream state of losing...”
– Alison Mosshart
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“When we go on stage I always feel like it’s us against the world.”
– Jamie Hince
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“It’s my favourite part. It’s the scariest part. It’s the most interesting part....”
– Alison Mosshart (On Performing)
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“When I was a kid I lived in the middle of nowhere and there wasn’t tonnes of...”
– Alison Mosshart
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“There’s something at the core of it that’s beyond music. We started off as two...”
– Jamie Hince
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“I think it’s inevitable that we’ll be compared with bands like The White...”
– Jamie Hince
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“‘The special thing about being in a band of two people is the space between...”
– Alison Mosshart (The Kills)
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“‘Fuck everybody and hide away and make your music until you know it’s amazing’”
– Alison Mosshart’s (The Kills) advice to young bands
October 2011
6 posts
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“Aleka is a poet philosopher. The Attic is a meeting place where he lives and he...”
– River Phoenix on his band, Aleka’s Attic
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“ I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall...”
– Florence Welch
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“I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket...”
– Florence Welch
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“What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments,...”
– Florence Welch
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“Where’s my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it’s in there—on the right...”
– Florence Welch
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“I’m obsessed with happy songs about sad things.”
– Florence Welch
September 2011
20 posts
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“They look and sound like the band who are going to save rock.”
– NME (2001) about The Strokes
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“I do have to say that Jared was a very kind man and he’s smarter than...”
– Johnathan Pierce (On Kings of Leon)
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“They’re very American bar rock and it’s not interesting, it...”
– Johnathan Pierce (On Kings of Leon)
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“I would advise them to split up and stop making music, I don’t think...”
– Johnathan Pierce (on Kings of Leon)
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“A band like The Strokes only comes along once in a lifetime. You should be...”
– NME (2001)
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“As soon as you start believing what people are writing about you, that’s when...”
– Nick Valensi
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“It’s funny, though, because although we really like girls, it’s almost as if we...”
– Nick Valensi
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“You’re sex symbols in Britain now, too. “Yeah,” smiles Nick, a man fully aware...”
– NME (2001)
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“the one thing I hate about so many bands is that when you see them on that show...”
– Julian Casablancas
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“Nick had never held a baby in his life before being handed his own two. He’s the...”
– Amanda De Cadenet
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“I don’t want to be some brainiac band. I just want us to do what we do: ROCK...”
– Julian Casablancas, The Strokes
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“I’ve been sleeping four hours a night just to finish this motherfucker,[Is This...”
– Julian Casablancas, The Strokes
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“The Strokes are so New York, it hurts.”
– NME 2001
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“Their five skinny, leather-clad frames are milling about on a street corner in...”
– NME May 2001
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“Do not go in there; do not sign with this company, or you’ll end up like...”
– Joe Strummer, The Clash