There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

Beck

Categorized in : Fall Blow Quality

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

mp3 sound lost

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

flyers gigs band

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

nature mother art

There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

puzzle know you song

To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

someone know me people

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

doing never music action

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

walk city shopping mind

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

road you learning time

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

more thought me done

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

bad try me sound

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

good music time culture