"I think I was around 10 or 11 years of age when I got my first guitar, but I can remember being as young as 3 or 4 watching my father jam on acoustic to his favorite rush and Jimmy Hendrix albums so I have always been around music."

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Source : "Interview: Conducting From the Grave, Mike Powell". Interview with Matt Darcy, nrpbeta.wordpress.com. May 9, 2011.

Mike Powell

#Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.”
“I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.”
“Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.”
“It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.”
“Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.”
“There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.”
“On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think thatâ€™s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I donâ€™t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.”
“Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.”

Source : "Interview with Lynn Shelton, Director of Humpday". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2009.

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