Chris McCaughan famous quotes

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.
-- Chris McCaughan

#School #Rocks #Kind

I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.
-- Chris McCaughan

#Hair #Band #Ashamed

I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.
-- Chris McCaughan

#Song #Writing #Rocks

I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.
-- Chris McCaughan

#Growing Up #Kids #Cities

It's hard to say. Whenever you play with a group of people for a long time it influences the way that you play with others. They were all very defining in their own way and all affected the band in one way or another. I don't think they are so obvious in the music. The fact is that The Lawrence Arms is the culmination of a long search of trying to find people who play well as a unit.
-- Chris McCaughan

#Thinking #Play #Long

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.