Sasha Frere-Jones famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.
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My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.
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Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'
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I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.
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The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.
-- Sasha Frere-Jones
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
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I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.
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I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes
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You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.
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The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.
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Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.
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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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