Bucky Pope famous quotes

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.
-- Bucky Pope

#Strong #Generations #Firsts

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.
-- Bucky Pope

#Song #Rocks #Band

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.
-- Bucky Pope

#Rolling #Stones #Stuff

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.
-- Bucky Pope

#Feelings #Sound #Littles

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.
-- Bucky Pope

#Band #Knows

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.
-- Bucky Pope

#Writing #Phrases #Use

I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.
-- Bucky Pope

#Song #War #Writing

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.
-- Bucky Pope

#Song #Writing #Track

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.
-- Bucky Pope

#Thinking #Guitar #Play

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.