"There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think."

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Source : "Built to Spill's Doug Martsch Talks New LP". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2009.

Doug Martsch

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“For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.”
“Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.”
“My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't”
“We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die”
“Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.”
“Whatâ€™s broken, and how do we fix it?”
“A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.”
“I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the point of almost absurdity. I don't want to celebrate absurdity, but I do mean to challenge a lot of premises.”

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