“You go through this whole learning thing when you get to be our age, and you learn that the extremes are really good. Like when Big Black comes on with all that guitar noise, that’s really good. Or when Patsy Cline sings, and she’s, like, dripping with tears, that’s really good too. Baaad disco! You know, like the Village People: That’s great because it’s just so campy gross! You learn to appreciate all kinds of music, especially if it’s extreme and the musicians really mean it.”
Kim Deal, Pixies
(on why their band chemistry works) “Well, there’s a girl in the band. Girls are better at communicating. Boys won’t necessarily initiate communication. But no…that’s bullshit. We’re confrontational; you can spend a lot of time getting to know someone, but communicating with people is work.”
Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth
"That particular {Replacements show} also marked the debut of Mars's rarely seen alter ego, "Pappy the Clown." Every once in a while, even the relatively steady Mars would lose it. He'd get lit to the gills, sneak off somewhere, and put on whiteface and his loudest, silliest clothes, maybe don a goofy hat and tie balloons around his neck, and reappear only minutes before showtime. "I remember one time when Pappy showed up," says [Bill] Sullivan. "Chris--I mean Pappy--looked over at me and he held out the drumsticks and I was like, 'New sticks?' He shakes his head. 'More sticks?' He shakes his head. I'm, like, 'What?!' He goes, 'New drummer.'"
Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could be Your Life
Krukowski: “If you get a big crowd in Boston, it tends to be a college crowd. If you go see the Pixies now, there’s kind of a drunk, college pick-up scene.
Wareham: “Yeah, they’re just not into the groove. They’re not into the love groove like they are here [in New York City] at CBGBs.”
Galaxie 500
“I find that often if I have a dream about something, it seems that just because I’ve woken up, I don’t feel like it’s finished. For example, if you dream that you’re in love with somebody. One day you have no opinion of them, then you have this dream that you’re in love with them, and you wake up the next day, and you see them and you feel funny, you know what I mean?”
Kevin Shields, My Bloody Valentine
“On the night we debuted Slacker in Austin, we showed the movie, and then we all went to see Mudhoney afterward. And they were great. But of course, later, I got sucked up into the whole Generation X grunge hype, and people would ask me what I thought about Nirvana. I’d say, ‘Yeah, gee, I like them, but I also listen to all sorts of stuff you’ve probably never heard of.’”
Rick Linklater, director