Kim Thayil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
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I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.
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Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.
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We're happy with what we've achieved. Every record we've made has furthered the growth of our line of success. It's never disappeared or gone backward: each record sells more, each tour is bigger.
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There're the causes where people are like, "What can you do for us? You guys have success and stature; you can make money for us and at the same time present yourselves to the public as altruistic and civic-minded." So it's an exchange. I don't mind looking altruistic and civic-minded if we're actually being that way.
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Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.
-- Kim Thayil
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
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I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
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If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
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