Dean Wareham Quotes

• We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

  Dean Wareham

  Weed, Independent, Sea

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• Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.

  Dean Wareham

  Canción, Escribir, Largo

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• You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

  Dean Wareham

  Love You, Able, Compliment

  "Dean And Britta's Dean Wareham". Interview with Maggie Serote, www.avclub.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a "go" button and a "stop" button, and some people just have the "go" button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they'll say, "Okay, I have to get more now." I'm not that kind of person.

  Dean Wareham

  Morning, People, Drug

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Una de las cosas buenas de estar en un grupo es que dependes de los demás para tener ideas, así que no tengo que hacerlo todo yo solo. Siempre existe el miedo a quedarse sin nada. Lo más difícil para mí es escribir letras, y eso empieza a ser difícil después de haber escrito unas 120 canciones.

  Dean Wareham

  Running, Song, Nice

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• My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.

  Dean Wareham

  Thinking, Scratches, Pieces

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• No pretendo entenderle, pero puedo disfrutar de él como poeta y cómico. Me gustó la idea del eterno retorno. A veces pienso que estar de gira año tras año es un eterno retorno; tocas en un determinado club de Copenhague y diez años después estás de vuelta, recorriendo los mismos caminos año tras año.

  Dean Wareham

  Pensar, Años, Jugar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.

  Dean Wareham

  Imagine, Like You, Punk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it's a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews. When people tell me they love the book, I just shrug and say, "Yeah, whatever." My shrink says it's all about the love within. You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

  Dean Wareham

  Song, Hate, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.

  Dean Wareham

  Fun, Writing, Exercise

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

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  Canción, Escritura, Años

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Para un músico o compositor de hoy en día, la pregunta que da miedo es: ¿qué nos depara el futuro? También es un momento extraño en el negocio de la música; parece como si todos estuviéramos en una especie de periodo de transición, atrapados entre la vieja tecnología y la nueva.

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  Technology, Scary, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Si miro mis propias grabaciones, creo que generalmente hay un punto focal dentro de la canción y a menudo es el puente instrumental o un solo de guitarra en el que intentamos hacer algo inesperado, algo bonito o raro, o bonito porque es raro. Y por supuesto fracaso la mitad de las veces, pero sí, ese es el objetivo, crear aunque sea unos segundos de dicha, o de tristeza. La guitarra eléctrica es un gran instrumento para hacer esto porque es capaz de sorprenderte. Hay tantos sonidos diferentes disponibles.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Me interesa la política, pero me he mantenido alejado de escribir canciones abiertamente políticas, o canciones con mensaje, porque me parece difícil hablar de política de forma inteligente en una canción de 4 minutos. Pero estoy descubriendo que hay formas de transmitir fragmentos de pensamiento político sin predicar que el pueblo tiene el poder o que no nos moveremos. Por supuesto, estos sentimientos también tienen su lugar -no estoy criticando a Phil Ochs-, pero eso es otro tipo de música, canciones para tocar en mítines, no para alcanzar un estado de felicidad.

  Dean Wareham

  Canción, escritura, juego

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

  Dean Wareham

  Philosophy, Teaching, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.

  Dean Wareham

  Gay, Evil, Design

  Source: therumpus.net

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