Craig Finn famous quotes

So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.
-- Craig Finn

#Worry #Pet #Neurosis

The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #Real #College

It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up on the Grateful Dead, which I certainly did, you listened to 10 million bootlegs. But you realize that American Beauty has some really tight, well-arranged songs that aren't meandering.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #Grateful #Night

It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.
-- Craig Finn

#Beautiful #Song #Morning

Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.
-- Craig Finn

#Real #Writing #Hair

Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New York, when it's miserably hot. I love electric Miles Davis in the summer. Jack Johnson, the songwriting especially, is a premier example of that. It always makes me feel hot in the city. It's also nice to have something not yelling in your ear. For me, as a lyricist, it's nice to put on something without any words.
-- Craig Finn

#Summer #New York #Nice

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.
-- Craig Finn

#Girl #Night #Thinking

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.
-- Craig Finn

#Girl #Bars #Band

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.
-- Craig Finn

#People #Maps #Wanted

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before.
-- Craig Finn

#Real #Thinking #People

Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.
-- Craig Finn

#Ideas #Giving #Kind

I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general - is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, "Hey, I've felt that exact way as a human being," and there's no easy way to describe it.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #Art #Book

There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #Ties #Long

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.
-- Craig Finn

#Heart #Thinking #Guitar

Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #People #Different

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #Crazy #People

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?
-- Craig Finn

#Song #People #Needs

When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.
-- Craig Finn

#Thinking #People #Goal

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.
-- Craig Finn

#Writing #Thinking #Littles

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #Coffee #Want

One of the things you do in a band is the more you stay together, the more you play to your strengths.
-- Craig Finn

#Together

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.
-- Craig Finn

#Memories #Writing #Band

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.
-- Craig Finn

#Wife #Pockets #My Wife

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.
-- Craig Finn

#Song #Writing #Tone

I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.
-- Craig Finn

#Car #Bars #Rhyming

One of the coolest things to me about going to a show is you look over, and the guy next to you is sitting there drinking a beer and he's wearing a Donkeys t-shirt. And you're like, "Dude, I love The Donkeys."
-- Craig Finn

#Drinking #Beer #Guy

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
-- Craig Finn

#Book #Reading #Fans

You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.
-- Craig Finn

#Girl #Song #School