Music in general is looking for something new overall. Les Claypool More Quotes by Les Claypool More Quotes From Les Claypool In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities. Les Claypool crazy hope funny Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing. Les Claypool rocks stars fishing To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave. Les Claypool tradition brave law Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band. Les Claypool bass band play Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity. Les Claypool swimming fun life You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it. Les Claypool littles watches book I'll run against the grain till the day I drop? Les Claypool grain running I'm a big believer in spontaneity. Les Claypool believer spontaneity bigs I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome. Les Claypool pieces band guy Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me. Les Claypool planets my-favorite actors More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that. Les Claypool appreciate artist thinking You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious. Les Claypool drs would-be watches Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam. Les Claypool guy personality feelings I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up. Les Claypool trails doors years My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that. Les Claypool my-favorite cities play I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing. Les Claypool imagery frogs names For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it. Les Claypool couple past years Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball. Les Claypool corny basketball sound San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be. Les Claypool san-francisco nice interesting We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid. Les Claypool little-kid littles kids
