They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers. Frank Black More Quotes by Frank Black More Quotes From Frank Black For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance. Frank Black chicken live performance writing I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead. Frank Black roads drive city sometimes You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor. Frank Black musicians say never you I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. Frank Black listen driving jazz girlfriend I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds. Frank Black own my-own college way Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records. Frank Black will great myself age But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job. Frank Black job truth-is critics truth People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. Frank Black you money brother people There's more to life than listening to rock music. Frank Black rock music listening life I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge. Frank Black great cool music people I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy. Frank Black bag never strong way It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel. Frank Black cruel steal you obvious I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time. Frank Black great me appreciate time I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. Frank Black never aesthetic trying way My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code. Frank Black personal know strange people I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. Frank Black style music easy people They're a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube. Frank Black cool you music age I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician. Frank Black you music business life I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people. Frank Black done stupid long people The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice. Frank Black react voice positive way
