American - Musician | July 16, 1971 -
The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one of the goals is to suggest that something is going on beyond what you can see.
Ed Kowalczyk
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We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence.
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We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt.
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Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.
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If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done.
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I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
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We really want the whole world to know about Live and to experience us.
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Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.
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We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.
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When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.
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We've always been a band that questions things.
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