If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.

Marnie Stern

Categorized in : People Bars Patterns

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Marnie Stern

care hurt feelings

Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music.

Marnie Stern

mp3 crazy thinking

I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time.

Marnie Stern

connections people thinking

I'm sure that it's not good not to be around people.

Marnie Stern

people

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

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being-real careers ends

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.

Marnie Stern

connections share people

I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.

Marnie Stern

buttons should-have people

I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain.

Marnie Stern

different brain people

Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.

Marnie Stern

different people past

The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual... Ooh I like that..." That was the energy that kept me up.

Marnie Stern

energy sound long

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

Marnie Stern

wells guitar insane

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

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guitar player mean

Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch.

Marnie Stern

kids moving thinking

People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal.

Marnie Stern

teenager band people

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together.

Marnie Stern

band sound together

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

Marnie Stern

males female

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.

Marnie Stern

opinion mean

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me.

Marnie Stern

thank-god artist mean

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Marnie Stern

doing how listening sometimes

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

Marnie Stern

listen going lightning two