If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys. Kristin Hersh More Quotes by Kristin Hersh More Quotes From Kristin Hersh Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say. Kristin Hersh shut-up If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me. Kristin Hersh bars band leader My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind. Kristin Hersh treats parent world Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. Kristin Hersh guitar media play No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights. Kristin Hersh tape drug light That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them. Kristin Hersh dream song travel I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. Kristin Hersh two years thinking The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. Kristin Hersh writing song My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant. Kristin Hersh wall brother years We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab. Kristin Hersh jesus Popular music sucks so bad right now. Kristin Hersh popular-music right-now I don't like the idea of famous people. Kristin Hersh people ideas To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules. Kristin Hersh We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration. Kristin Hersh celebration perfect needs I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence. Kristin Hersh humor stupid fun Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay. Kristin Hersh pain mother baby Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument. Kristin Hersh instruments taste needs I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned. Kristin Hersh inclination concerned people I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s. Kristin Hersh felt secret found I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference. Kristin Hersh vapid differences mind
