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Bill Callahan Quotes

American - Musician | June 3, 1966 -

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

Internet Late Know Understand Email

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.

Drive You Go Rock Places Never

I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.

Home Live House Place Years Things

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's something that I didn't start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that narrative that's already been created. You just have to read it and write it down.

Ride Words Start Thinking Feel You

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

Mistakes Learn You Know First Going

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.

Work Music Calm Thinking Doing Way

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

Live Time People Night You Look

My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.

Time School Parents Remember First

I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.

Power Mountains Spiritual Meaning

I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.

Music Words Weird Mouth Ready Know

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

Somewhere Writer Between Symbol

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

Experience People Song Write Niche

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