{"id":16082,"date":"2019-02-11T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16082"},"modified":"2019-02-10T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:16:37","slug":"ten-favorite-quotes-from-my-2018-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/ten-favorite-quotes-from-my-2018-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Favorite Quotes from my 2018 Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title explains it all. Each year I do on average 175 interviews with musicians. These are some of my favorite quotes from last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16083\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/alice_cooper03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/alice_cooper03.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/alice_cooper03-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\u201cFour strings seemed so much simpler than six. If it could have been three strings, I would have done that.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/01\/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-its-better-than-wiping-asses-part-two\/\">Robert Been (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes a mistake actually works. So you say, \u2018Remember that, when you fell over that amp? Yeah, do it again tomorrow night. They loved it!\u2019 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/11\/alice-cooper-the-musoscribe-interview\/\">Alice Cooper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA really proggy, odd time signature, 19-minute, weird, \u2018Jazz Odyssey\u2019 is fun to play. But it might not be very pleasant to listen to.\u201d \u2013 Tobias Forge (Ghost)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought that I would be maybe better out front and leaving [keyboards] to someone who knew what they were doing!\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/29\/simple-minds-jim-kerr-still-alive-and-kicking-part-1\/\">Jim Kerr (Simple Minds)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like, \u2018Is [Ginger Baker] worth a call?\u2019 And I\u2019m thinking, \u2018Who knows? Just for the insults it might be hilarious.\u2019\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/13\/john-lydon-tells-it-as-it-is-part-one\/\">John Lydon (PiL)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no single information pipeline anymore. So, in some ways, that\u2019s where we\u2019re all heading: just a world of underground celebrities, customized heroes.\u201d Steve McDonald (Redd Kross)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re actually better now than we were then. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s gonna be a plus or a minus.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/05\/southern-culture-on-the-skids-in-a-haze\/\">Rick Miller (Southern Culture on the Skids)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy life has reflected my interviews. I\u2019ve gotten better. I\u2019m on the wrong side of 87 now, so I had to learn something doing interviews all these years.\u201d \u2013 Sonny Rollins<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a record label and you had the choice between Foghat or promoting [me], you would probably spend your promotion dollars on Foghat.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/utopias-adventures-continue-part-one\/\">Todd Rundgren<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody who graduated from the \u2018Colonel Bruce Hampton bootcamp of music\u2019 [learned that] why we were doing it was as important as what we were doing.\u201d \u2013 Jeff Sipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title explains it all. Each year I do on average 175 interviews with musicians. 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