Alex Chilton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
-- Alex Chilton

#Records #Firsts #Flukes
Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and theyâ€™re nice little guys who are usually in college, and theyâ€™re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.
-- Alex Chilton

#Lonely #Stars #Nice
Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.
-- Alex Chilton

#Years #Waiting #Drug
I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
-- Alex Chilton

#Thinking #People #Clubs
I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.
-- Alex Chilton

#Country #Player #Years
Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.
-- Alex Chilton

#Needs #Want #Baggage
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
-- Alex Chilton

#Song #Writing #Expression
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
-- Alex Chilton

#Years #Trying #Sometimes
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
-- Alex Chilton

#Fun #Thinking #Ideas

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
I don't rely on my figure to sell records.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Alex Chilton famous quotes

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